Path: utzoo!utdoe!generic!pnet91!ericmcg
From: ericmcg@pnet91.cts.com (Eric Mcgillicuddy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: faults with windows 3.0
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Date: 12 May 91 19:45:05 GMT
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>i have experience with windows on an ibm ps/2 55sx (running an 386sx chip).
>here are my faults with windows 3.0:
>
>albert

I won't quote your points folks that are interested can look back at your
post, but I have a few comments.

1. Runs fine on my 386-33 with 2Meg of memory.  :)

3. The menu has to be down before keyboard equivalents are active. Huh?
4. Windows doesn't haven't a Finder it has a Program manager and a File
Manager. It should have a Finder like thing, PM isn't up to snuff. File
Manager works, but view by Name is the only display option.

6. The paradigm is different from the Mac (and GS), but close enough that most
Mac (and GS) programmers can be up and running in a month or so (probably for
simple stuff). "Hello World" can appear in a window in just a couple days.
7. Jane Secretary doesn't have a hope of installing Windows with a custom
video driver, but I haven't seen any need to, that is what support is for. I
doubt she could install System7 to an unformatted hard drive either, but again
I have to see any that have needed to.
9. DOS is ever present in Windows. (same sh*t, different toilet)
10. Apple owns Finder, what's your point?
11. Windows meets all the unofficial meanings of "GUI", but there is no
standard and it is just a label, like "RISC".

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