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From: robert@erix.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MicroSoft Windows
Message-ID: <1312@erix.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 2-Mar-87 06:00:44 EST
Article-I.D.: erix.1312
Posted: Mon Mar  2 06:00:44 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Mar-87 20:28:01 EST
References: <75800026@uiucdcsp> <2228@sci.UUCP> <388@neoucom.UUCP>
Reply-To: robert@erix.UUCP (Robert Virding)
Organization: Ericsson Telecom, Stockholm, Sweden
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In article <388@neoucom.UUCP> wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Bill Mayhew) writes:
>
>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.

Yes, and some of the MS software is pretty buggy. Their WRITE can't
handle fonts correctly and doesn't always show correctly on the screen
what comes out on a printer, especially indentation. I talked to a
representative here in Sweden and they consider it "free" software so
they don't concentrate on it. They will be coming out with more stuff,
a new WRITE and a DRAW, which will be much (?) better but that will
cost money.

>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.
This is true. I use GEM as a top level DOS interface.

Does anyone know if there is a better WRITE for GEM, one that can
handle different size fonts and such? This is what forces me to use MS
Windows.

			Robert Virding  @ Ericsson Telecom, Stockholm
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