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From: zeus@stratix.UUCP (Mark Mullin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Windows/graphics query
Message-ID: <174@stratix.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 29-Oct-87 11:31:51 EST
Article-I.D.: stratix.174
Posted: Thu Oct 29 11:31:51 1987
Date-Received: Wed, 4-Nov-87 04:54:09 EST
References: <45900081@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu> <1048@cup.portal.com> <10140@felix.UUCP> <419@srs.UUCP>
Organization: Stratix Inc,McLean VA
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Summary: MS-Windows has SERIOUS defects

In article <419@srs.UUCP>, dan@srs.UUCP (Dan Kegel) writes:
> > Unlike Windows, GEM has been a real product for years...
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> In the MS-DOS world, these conditions will probably be met by Windows-386 
> running on a 640x480 screen.
> Perhaps other windowing systems already meet these conditions.
> 
> Comments, anyone?
> 
> - Dan Kegel (...rochester!srs!dan)

I gave MS the benefit of the doubt and spent a great deal of money 
moving certain applications to Windows.  My end feeling is that MS is way 
over their head, the package is basically unstable, and there are
multiple instances where they have convinced people to spend money on
their failed promises.
More than resolution is a concern here, the primary concerns about
multiple representations of data being best addressed by Object Oriented
systems such as Smalltalk,C++, and the like.
With MS's implementation strategy being so weak, I believe that Apple 
truly has a possible big win with the MAC II. There you have windows
coupled into a nice development environment without MS's unfortunate
tendancy to mimic IBM's more abstruse command and program grammars.
The basic viewpoint in windowing must address far more than screen
resolution, given the fact that windowing operations are as complex
as they are. When considering such a user interface, high resolution
isn't worth too much when the basic system makes these types of interfaces
prohibitivly expensive.

PS: To flamers, I realize I have offered opinions without backing facts.
I have done this deliberatly to avoid overloading the net with undesired
data.  If there is enough interest (heat) I am very willing to prove my
little thesis.  MS has cost me a fortune, in cash and credibility, and I
would love to save others the grief I have gone through.

Mark Mullin @ Stratix Inc
uunet!stratix!mark

Experiments must be reproducible.  They must fail in the same way.