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From: todd@pinhead.pegasus.com (Todd Ogasawara)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.windows.ms,comp.windows.ps.programmer
Subject: time for a comp.binaries.ibm.pc.windows???
Keywords: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.windows? comp.binaries.ibm.pc.windows.vbasic
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.224447.1228@pinhead.pegasus.com>
Date: 28 Jun 91 22:44:47 GMT
Organization: Hawaii Medical Service Association
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Has there ever been any discussion about creating a
comp.binaries.ibm.pc.windows news group? My guess is that with three
major new low-cost development platforms out (Borland C++, Turbo Pascal
for Windows, and Microsoft Visual BASIC), we are going to see a lot of
software for Windows flowing out into the shareware market and public
domain. 

We might even want to have a comp.binaries.ibm.pc.windows.vbasic group. 
I just got my copy of Visual BASIC and was amazed to see how small the
EXE files sizes are (ok, ok, I know you need that 270K VBRUN100.DLL file
around too, but you only need one of those for all your Visual BASIC EXE
files).  You can write some pretty impressive stuff with EXE files sizes
of between 5K and 20K.  And, please, no religious wars about whether or
not Visual BASIC will cause a pletora of cr*ppy software to emerge in
the Windows shareware market.  I have both Borland C++ and Visual BASIC. 
Borland C++ gives me power tools.  Visual BASIC gives me "play" tools. 
It makes programming fun again. And those small Visual BASIC EXE files
would be easy to send out as uuencoded files.

If there is enough interest, I will be glad to put out the Request for
Votes for one or both groups and report the results.  We, would, of
course, still need to find volunteer moderators for the group(s). 

So, how do you feel about creating

	comp.binaries.ibm.pc.windows
and/or
	comp.binaries.ibm.pc.windows.vbasic

-- 
Todd Ogasawara ::: Hawaii Medical Service Association
Internet       ::: todd@pinhead.pegasus.com
Telephone      ::: (808) 536-9162 ext. 7