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From: zu@ethz.UUCP (Urs Zurbuchen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Any experiences with windowing packages with MSC 4.0?
Message-ID: <90@bernina.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-May-87 01:52:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: bernina.90
Posted: Mon May 18 01:52:57 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 19-May-87 04:19:19 EDT
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Reply-To: zu@bernina.UUCP (Urs Zurbuchen)
Organization: ETH Zuerich, CS Department, Switzerland
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Keywords: WINDOWS

In article <1169@ubvax.UUCP> skip@ubvax.UUCP (Stayton D Addison Jr) writes:
>I guess I am thinking primarily of commercial products for a commercial
>market.  The story may be different for others.

Did you ever see a SUCCESSFULL program running under MS-Windows ?
Most (if not all) successfull programms write directly to the screen
because of performance reasons. And Windows is that damned slow. Which
user will go for a package which runs under MS-Windows if he can have
something equivalent in terms of functionality, but a lot faster ?

Ok, software houses could stick with Windows, waiting for the next two years
for OS/2 released WITH the windowing package. With a lot of luck, they will
have a really successfull programm when OS/2 is out. But in the meantime,
they won't earn much.


		...urs


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