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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Any experiences with windowing packages with MSC 4.0?
Message-ID: <598@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 12-May-87 19:47:48 EDT
Article-I.D.: bsu-cs.598
Posted: Tue May 12 19:47:48 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 16-May-87 02:21:47 EDT
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Reply-To: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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In article <4008@teddy.UUCP> jpn@teddy.UUCP (John P. Nelson) writes:
>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.

Correct.  

Windows, unlike many other real standards, is not a SPECIFICATION but
an IMPLEMENTATION.  The difference is critical.  There is only one
source for Windows.  And, if the rumor is true that Microsoft pays
Apple a royalty for the use of windows and icons, there may never BE
another software package that has the same interface.

Software written for Windows could be locking itself into a proprietary
interface over which the software author has little control.
-- 
Rahul Dhesi
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