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From: dpz@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU (David P. Zimmerman)
Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Re: MAC look-alike for MS-DOS PC's
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Date: Sat, 24-May-86 18:42:14 EDT
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>> The closest thing you'll find to Macintosh on the IBM is MS Windows.  It's
>> slower and blurrier and nowhere near as slick, but then...
>
>And Microsoft Windows has a couple of weird design flaws that are starting
>to get my goat.
>
>	o They seem to have modified the EXEC function, so that you can't
>	  even open up a COMMAND.COM window & have it behave normally (which
>	  is extremely important if you want to be able to play reversi while
>	  waiting for Lattice/Microsoft 'C' to finish compiling in the corner).
>	  Why not just implement "new window EXEC" as a Windows call & leave
>	  the old exec alone?
>
>	o They don't time-slice, so if you have a compute-bound task in one
>	  window you can give up trying to use your PC for anything else while
>	  it's running.
>
>But as far as relative slickness goes, I'll take MS-Windows over Finder any
>day... or at least until the day that multitasking Finder comes along.

These aren't the newsgroups to gripe about MS-Windows (net.micro.pc
would be better for this than net.micro and net.micro.mac), but I'll
just add my $.02.

Windows does time-slice, but not when it is accessing the disk.  As
far as compute-bound programs go, if you have 3 windows open, each
window would get 33% of the CPU, and logically each application would
have a performance degradation depending on how CPU-bound it is and if
there is any disk-accessing going on.

I agree about the modified EXEC - I don't like it.  When all you want
is to run a simple program in a small window, it is a pain to either
have to make a PIF for it or let it take over the whole screen.

Slow: If what you're running it on makes it slow, you probably don't
need Windows.  MS-Windows is for management of large quantities of
hard disk storage and memory, and it runs best with both.  Windows on
a 256K AT&T 6300 with 2 disk drives is unbearably slow.  Just
*loading* Windows brings the machine to its knees.  Windows on an IBM
PCAT with extended memory and a 20 meg hd is incredibly fast.  Poetry
in motion.

Blurry: where did you get that?  On a CGA it is sharp with 2 colors.
On an EGA it is sharp with 4 colors.  On an EGA w/256K it is sharp
with 16 colors.  It all depends on what you want to put out for a
display.  Maybe you have a dirty screen.

Slickness: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.  I like Finder 5.2.
I like the Sun 3 workstation desktop even better.

			Davidann
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