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From: rps@homxc.UUCP (R.SHARPLES)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Any experiences with windowing packages with MSC 4.0?
Message-ID: <388@homxc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 19-May-87 09:36:29 EDT
Article-I.D.: homxc.388
Posted: Tue May 19 09:36:29 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 20-May-87 05:40:53 EDT
References: <482@ucsbcsl.UUCP> <441@csm9a.UUCP> <1098@ubvax.UUCP> <90@bernina.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Holmdel
Lines: 25
Keywords: WINDOWS
Summary: Ditto - a month of living with MS Windows confirms this.

In article <90@bernina.UUCP>, zu@ethz.UUCP (Urs Zurbuchen) writes:
> 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 ?
> 

Ditto!  I lived with MS Windows on a ATT 6300+ (7.2 on the Norton SI)
and found it to be barely fast enough, and NO SOFTWARE!.  With Windows
you get Write and Paint (like Mac Write and Paint), a terminal emulator
and the utilities that Sidekick provides (except for the ASCII table).
These things run properly under windows but Write is slow in scrolling.

Getting anything else to work is torture and if you do, you usually have to
set it up so that windows is swapped out of memory anyway.

Russ Sharples
homxc!rps

NOTE:

The above in NO WAY reflects the opinions of AT&T.
These opinions are my own and the results of un-scientific and 
highly irregular analysis methods.