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From: caprio@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Mike Caprio)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Desqview vs Windows?
Message-ID: <6138@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 12 Jan 90 20:08:32 GMT
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Reply-To: caprio@uhccux.UUCP (Mike Caprio)
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>From a programmer's standpoint, Windows is definitely the way to go because
>of its close relationship to the OS/2 Presentation Manager.  Write a
>program for one environment, and you've virtually written a program for the
>other.
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  As I understand it, programming for Windows and PM, turned out to be
far more different than MS had promised.  None of the functions calls are
the same, etc.  It will apparently be a major hassle to bring a program
over to PM after designing it for Windows :-(