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From: cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Microsoft Windows and MS support?
Message-ID: <1975@optilink.UUCP>
Date: 17 Mar 88 17:30:06 GMT
References: <496@xios.XIOS.UUCP>
Organization: Optilink Corporation, Petaluma, CA
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> Is this new?  I just bought MS Windows 2.0 and when I opened up the
> packet, Microsoft did not provide any information about getting
> support.  I guess that they are finally formally recognising that
> they sell software without support!  Anyway, I have a couple of

Oh no.  Software as intuitive as MS Windows doesn't require software
support. :-)

> questions that I would like to ask MS or anyone else who might have an
> answer.
> 
> 1.  Is it really that s....l....o.....w on printing.  Bill Gates claimed
> that MS Windows on an AT is as fast as a MAC. Hmmmm.  Well, my 8 mhz. AT
> goes away for minutes on end when I print a paint file, or even a write
> file.  It's speed is so poor that I would class it as unusable.

This is my experience also.  But then again, compare printing with Windows
to printing a full page MacPaint drawing on an ImageWriter -- that goes
into the "unusable" class also -- but most Mac users with just an Image-
Writer don't have anything to compare it to.

> 2.  I have an LQ-800, I have set it up properly, I believe, according to
> the manuals and read.me's, but whenever I select one of the built in LQ
> fonts write, write always uses the same screen font to display text
> regardless of the actual font, or size of font.  The non-LQ fonts work ok,

This mystified me at first also -- but I found that selecting the Fonts...
menu choice enabled me to select more sizes.  (Of course, some of the large
sizes start giving my fonts on the screen again -- go from 36 pt. Times to
48 pt. Times, and the font gets smaller).

> but they take forever to print and are not as good looking.  The correct 
> fonts are printed, they just don't correspond to what is on the screen.

There also seems to be some unobvious switch for controlling the size of
the print.  MOST of the time, if I try to print large type sizes, I get
very tall, but very skinny characters -- ONCE I've produced print that
looked like the screen fonts.

I have a theory that MS Windows was tested with about three printers (one
of which was a PostScript printer -- boy that works well with MS Windows!),
and the wizards of Microsoft :-) trusted their printer tables and font
conversions to work for all other cases.

> Don Taylor         ...!uunet!mnetor!dciem!nrcaer!xios!dont 

My attitude about Microsoft software is about the same as my attitude
about anti-perspirants -- I would prefer a better solution, but there
isn't one available, so I guess I will have to stick to something inelegant
and smelly.

Clayton E. Cramer