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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MicroSoft Windows
Message-ID: <388@neoucom.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 25-Feb-87 11:30:53 EST
Article-I.D.: neoucom.388
Posted: Wed Feb 25 11:30:53 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 27-Feb-87 22:20:39 EST
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Organization: Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine
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Summary: I hate windows too.


Can you spell s--l--o--w?  Sure, I knew uou could.  I've run
windows on the 8 MHz AT compat. in my office and was real
disappointed in how slow it is.  I've also got GEM (forget the
version, but it's pretty old) and it is about twice the speed of
windows.  My main gripe about GEM is that the daggone menus stay
dropped down after you move the mouse off of them (this must have
something to do with the Apple Co. look&feel crap).  The draw and
paint utilites that are included with GEM are miles ahead of the
junk that microsoft plams off with windows.  For instance, GEM
paint is in full living color on an EGA card, while windows paint
is primitive (not even full screen) b&w.

I have what I assume is a pretty new version of windows, that I've
only had for about a month (ver 1.03).

I've also seen Ventura Publisher running in GEM on an XT and it was
still tolerably fast.  I don't think you could get away with it in
windows, as the intrinsic overhead from windows is much greater.

GEM is also more forgiving about what it will let you run.  For
instance, I can run windows from inside of GEM.  Windows will not
let me run GEM from inside of windows.

Windows is winning out becuase microsoft has a giant advertising
budget, and is providing a lot of help (albeit expensive) help to
developers.  DR, on the other hand, is not agressively pushing GEM.
DR also has taken a lot of bad rap for concurrent DOS, etc. lately
which is overshowing the niceness of GEM.  Oh well...

--Bill

Bill Mayhew
Division of Basic Medical Sciences
Northeastern Ohio Universities' College of Med.
Rootstown, OH  44272  USA    phone:  216-325-2511
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