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From: timr@gssc.UUCP (Tim Roberts)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: Why even use Windows x.xx?
Message-ID: <6640@gssc.UUCP>
Date: 16 Apr 91 20:31:26 GMT
References: <10960@uwm.edu> <1077@hrshcx.csd.harris.com> <1991Apr12.142258.15226@cbnewsj.att.com>
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Organization: Graphic Software Systems, Inc. Beaverton, Or.
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In article <1991Apr12.142258.15226@cbnewsj.att.com> jwi@cbnewsj.att.com (Jim Winer @ AT&T, Middletown, NJ) writes:
>
>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?
>
>The only reason for using widows is because you have to for programs like
>Micrographix Designer or Corel Draw.  I use Ventura GEM/DOS because it's
>much faster, and WP5.1 as well.  There is no possible way that I will even
>consider WP for Windows, W4W, or AMI PRO -- Windows is just too damn slow.

People don't buy Windows just to run Windows, any more than they buy OS/2 just
because it's OS/2 (which, clearly, they didn't).  People buy the operating
environment they need in order to support the applications they want to run.
If Word for Windows does what you want, then you will buy DOS, Windows and
whatever hardware is required to make it run adequately.  If you're satisfied
with WP5.1, then you'll buy DOS and forget Windows.  The "I won't run Windows
applications because Windows is too slow" argument is irrelevant and naive.
Windows runs just fine on my 20MHz 386.

GUIs present more benefits to the application developer than to the end user.
The application developer can simply FORGET about supporting 2,427 different
graphic display devices, 1,912 different printer devices, 327 different 
plotters and 9 different mouse interfaces.  Your application under Windows
automatically runs on any combination of devices supported by Windows, at
whatever resolutions the device drivers support.  That is a BIG improvement
is marketability and productivity for the application developer.

-- 
timr@gssc.gss.com	Tim N Roberts, CCP	Graphic Software Systems
						Beaverton, OR

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