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- From: alistair@microsoft.com (Alistair Banks)
- Subject: Re: Still no VI for NT!
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.001153.6753@microsoft.com>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 00:11:53 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Jul14.163740.23231@hyper.hyper.com> <1992Jul20.213158.17271@pony.Ingres.COM> <RFowler.282@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov>
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- In article <RFowler.282@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov> RFowler@kelvin.jpl.nasa.gov (Robert A. Fowler) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul20.213158.17271@pony.Ingres.COM> rion@Ingres.COM (Rion Cassidy (x3357) OGT) writes:
- >
- >>In article <1992Jul14.163740.23231@hyper.hyper.com> bonneau@hyper.com (Paul Bonneau,,) writes:
- >>>
- >>>I guess this posting is really a plea to tools vendors to
- >>>*please* port VI to NT!
- >>>
- >>>cheers - Paul.
- >
- >>Yeah, right! We've got a guy here waiting for someone to port Wordstar to NT!
- >
- >And whats wrong with that?
- >
- >Some people like wordprocessors that show what the control codes are, and
- >whare the f*** they are at, as well as an easy to use max 2 key command
- >structure with a handy numonic for most commands (unlike that OTHER one
- >with random multi-functionkey commands).
-
- Why the swearing? Where's the debate? Let's calmly agree that
- we need all apps that have a significant user-base ported to the
- Win32 API asap to make it accessible and useful to the maximum
- number of people - we don't need one or the other, we need both, all
-
- I'd like to discourage this forum being used to debate the rights and
- wrongs of various historically successful apps
-
- -- Alistair
-