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From: berger@datacube.UUCP
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Subject: Re: MS Windows Questions:  Extra memory
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Date: Fri, 18-Jul-86 09:04:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 18 09:04:00 1986
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I worked on a project to develop an application based  on MS Windows,
I was greatly disapointed with MS Windows.

When you first sit down and start going over the manuals, it looks
great. It seems to have all the features and functions you need.
Then when you start writing programs, you discover that MS Windows
is more that a windowing package.  It controls the horizontal, it
controls the vertical, you are in the outer limits of frustration.
You call functions that work in other normal programs and nothing
happens, no error messages and no function execution!

It took us 3 days to figure out how to get a menu button to control
something.  We never figured out how to get text into text windows
and then into a function (THERE IS NO printf, scanf, or even a
getchar!)  Debuging was a nitemare and there was no guidance in the
manuals.

Now to be fair, the big problem is that MS Windows is trying  to be a
multi-tasking operating system on to of brain  damaged MS-DOS running
on a crippled computer based on an 80286 in "real" mode.  This forces
MS Windows to do software based memory management.  

MS Windows will probably become a standard, but it will need a lot of
work in support tools, tutorials and documentation.