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  3. From: furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod)
  4. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy
  5. Subject: Re: FCC will proclaim Microsoft is run by Communists! : )
  6. Message-ID: <1993Jan2.220250.21449@sequent.com>
  7. Date: 2 Jan 93 22:02:50 GMT
  8. Article-I.D.: sequent.1993Jan2.220250.21449
  9. References: <1992Dec29.004640.2498@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <29DEC199209332560@moose.cccs.umn.edu> <1i3uh5INN55b@shelley.u.washington.edu>
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  14.  
  15. In article <1i3uh5INN55b@shelley.u.washington.edu> tzs@stein.u.washington.edu (Tim Smith) writes:
  16. >In article <29DEC199209332560@moose.cccs.umn.edu> rwh@moose.cccs.umn.edu writes:
  17. >>FWIW, the rumor is that BG went ballistic when he found out that the
  18. >>applications group was using undocumented calls.  Not because they got caught;
  19. >>but rather, because the application will quit working if that specific function
  20. >>is removed from the next Windows release.  In effect, the applications group
  21. >>is imposing standards on the OS group, i.e. "Remember that incredibly ugly
  22. >>kludge you had to make to get version x.x out the door?  Well it will now haunt
  23. >>you for life because some clown in apps decided to cut a corner".
  24. >
  25. >Supposedly, Apple had to put a lot of hacks in Multifinder to recognize certain
  26. >Microsoft applications and do ungodly things to make sure that they would
  27. >work because MS applications programmers violated a lot of rules.
  28. >
  29. >I wonder if any of the applications people doing Windows stuff at MS were
  30. >the same as the people who did their Macintosh stuff?
  31. >
  32. >--Tim Smith
  33.  
  34. Same premise, different groups I suspect. It takes too much wasted
  35. time to be a good Macintosh programmer. The PC guys would barf a
  36. lung if they were thrown into that environment cold turkey.
  37.  
  38. JMHO...
  39.  
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