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From: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Any experiences with windowing packages with MSC 4.0?
Message-ID: <4008@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 11-May-87 14:45:57 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 11 14:45:57 1987
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Reply-To: jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson)
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
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>> a PC and would like to use a windowing library.  Has anyone
>> used any of the many packages I see advertised ...
>
>I don't get it.  Why not just use MS-Windows?

That's EASY.  Who wants to write applications that will only run on
a machine running windows?!  If I write a program, I want it to run
on ANY PC.  Windows is FAR from being a widely-used standard.

Not only that, but WINDOWS takes an AMAZING amount of main memory!
I certainly wouldn't run windows on my XT clone!  I wonder how many
people really run windows all the time:  damn few, probably.  Most
real applications DONT use windows: windows just gets in the way!

OK, I'll admit that with protected-mode windows (or OS/2) there will
be PLENTY of memory space, and the overhead of WINDOWS (or OS/2) will
be a drop in the bucket:  But that doesn't help all us 8088 users!
Besides, it's all vaporware right now!