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From: mike@ames.arc.nasa.gov (Mike Smithwick)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Which windowing system to use
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Date: 25 May 89 16:45:35 GMT
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A friend is wanting to port an Amiga program over to the PeeCee. We're
trying to decide what would be the best windowing system to write it under.

His professional experiance is using MS-Windows on a 386 box, so it would
make the most sense to take advantage of that.  However, the size of the
program and speed overhead requirments might cause some problems.

My questions are -

 1) How big is the runtime version of MS-Windows vs. the kernal, and
    will that take less computational overhead than the full program?
    (we want the application to run on a 286/CGA box as the minimum
     configuration)

 2) We need a minimum of 16 colors, I understand that MSW takes 8 colors
    for itself, permitting only 8 for the programmer (is this the case
    for EGA/VGA?)

 3) How do alternate windowing systems compare? Has anyone had experience
    with MetaWindows or Matrix layout?

Thanks. . .

          *** mike (still looking for a publisher) smithwick ***
Infinity Software, 1986-1989, RIP, (ha! ha! ha! haaaa!)

[disclaimer : nope, I don't work for NASA, I take full blame for my ideas]