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From: gervers@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu
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Subject: Re: MicroSoft Windows
Message-ID: <1987Mar4.135307.22520@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Date: Wed, 4-Mar-87 13:53:07 EST
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Posted: Wed Mar  4 13:53:07 1987
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>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.
>
>
>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
>(wtm@neoucom.UUCP    ...!cbatt!neoucom!wtm)


I have to agree, at one point, I had to make GEM and WINDOWS work on
a sanyo mbc 555[vb] and had a chance to compare the two, In terms of
graphics, GEM DRAW is miles ahead of Windows Paint, (However, DRAW
is I believe, vector based, and PAINT is pixels oriented).

The positioning of windows is also more intuitive in GEM than WINDOWS,
in WINDOWS, you CANNOT place a window on top of another window, they
are always side by side.  GEM however, lets you open up to 8 windows.

I don't think that GEM is a lot faster than WINDOWS though, everytime
you get out of an APPlication, GEMDESK is automatically reloaded and
that takes time.

indra laksono
DEEDS PROJECT

Now the real question.  Does Ventura Publisher work with LASERJET + ?