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From: pottera@infonode.ingr.com (Andrew Potter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Why even use Windows x.xx?
Message-ID: <1991Apr12.171610.6091@infonode.ingr.com>
Date: 12 Apr 91 17:16:10 GMT
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markh@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Mark William Hopkins) writes:


>   Maybe I missed the boat somewhere, but what is so great about windows
>anyhow?  What does it get me that I already can't get with reasonable command
>shell, a good editor and a few good UNIX-like utilities?

It may not get you anything, depending on what you're using your
computer for.  If you like to run more than one application at a time,
and be able to see what you're doing, windows is useful.  This can be
convenient for switching among sequential tasks, such as compile & edit;
or for performing concurrent tasks, e.g.  downloading a file & playing a
game, or composing a document that contains graphics.  If you want to
cut and paste, e.g.  a drawing into a text document, windows is useful. 
There are a number of things like this that are easy to do under Windows
that you might not do at all with a command-line shell.  There's also
something to be said for the consistency among Windows applications. 


>   Or was it simply meant as something to be marketed to people who have an 
>aversion to command-line shells? You know, personal taste?

I can't speak for everyone, but I have no aversion to command-line
shells.  I run one all the time.  In a window!

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