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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Why even use Windows x.xx?
Message-ID: <1991Apr15.205102.21651@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 15 Apr 91 20:51:02 GMT
References: <1280@duteca.UUCP> <10960@uwm.edu>
Reply-To: poffen@SunOS (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, ATE division, San Jose, Ca.
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In article <10960@uwm.edu> 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?
>
>   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 guess the boat sailed away without you... :-)

It gives you..

1.) A nice graphics based windowing system. (A picture is worth a 1000 words!)

2.) The ability to multitask applications (DOS apps on a 386 too.)

While it has its drawbacks, it is not a bad start. Hopefully uSoft will keep
improving it.

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