Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hp-pcd!hpsgwp!plim From: plim@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com (Peter Lim) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Windowing environments Message-ID: <3360019@hpsgwp.sgp.hp.com> Date: 18 Apr 91 10:12:20 GMT References: <1991Apr14.222218.11479@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> Organization: HP Singapore IC Design Ctr Lines: 56 / larrys@watson.ibm.com (Larry Salomon, Jr.) / 8:56 pm Apr 17, 1991 / writes: $ In <26411@hydra.gatech.EDU>, vernard@prism.gatech.EDU (Vernard Martin) writes: $ >First of all OS/2 is an operatoring system that uses not a windowing $ >environemtn per se. It does have a nice windowing environment that is $ >integral to it but it is still hard to compare it to X and Windows. I $ >thought there were plans to use NeXTStep on the OS/2 platform in the $ >future. $ $ HARD TO COMPARE TO WINDOWS??? Either you're kidding or you're blind. $ Take your pick. How can you say that PM is hard to compare to Windows, $ when Windows is a true lookalike of PM (in terms of the GUI). $ Is there any hires display driver for OS/2 PM ? I mean 104 x 768 or at least 800 x 600. Is there hundreds of printer drivers for OS/2 ? Is there font enhancement drivers for OS/2 PM ? (like ATM etc. for Windows). The last time I checked, NO (things might have changed a bit since then). Can you run DOS extender program when you are running OS/2 ? In Windows, I can run Zortech C++ --- a DOS Extender program under a DOS session in Windows 3.0. Windows might be riding on top of screwy MesSy-DOS, and doesn't make very good use of your 386 CPU power (OS/2 before 2.0 doesn't either) but there exist a lot of tools that works with Windows to make the best use of whatever printer, display card, scanner etc. etc. you happen to have. And the combination still runs all my favorite hundreds of DOS utilities. That's why I am still running Windows. Give me an OS/2 with all these advantages, ability to use 386 4 GB linear address space and I will switch bandwagon any time. $ >Yeah, a great thought. However, would the result have any of the bad $ >features of OS/2? If it has enough of them, it may cause the new $ >OS/2WIndows stuff to a crash and burn like OS/2. $ $ Bad features? Please elaborate. This prate about Windows being better $ than OS/2 without any substance in them is ridiculous. $ See above. The problem is what OS/2 lacks and not what Windows has. Regards, ___o``\________________________________________________ ___ __ _ _ Peter Lim. V````\ @ @ . .. ... .- -> 76 MIPS at under US$20K !! --- -- - - /.------------------------------------------------ === == = = >--_// . .. ... .- -> 57 MIPS at under US$12K !! `' . If you guessed SUN, IBM or DEC, your are wrong ! E-mail: plim@hpsgwg.HP.COM Snail-mail: Hewlett Packard Singapore, Tel: (065)-279-2289 (ICDS, ICS) Telnet: 520-2289 1150 Depot Road, Singapore 0410. #include