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- Subject: Re: UI Re: CBM mention on 12/11/92 Computer Chronicles
- Message-ID: <jbickers.0m2d@templar.actrix.gen.nz>
- From: jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers)
- Date: 26 Dec 92 12:07:19 PST
- References: <1992Dec21.230338.18835@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de>
- <1992Dec22.153227.19928@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> <jbickers.0m02@templar.actrix.gen.nz> <1992Dec24.020213.23061@usl.edu>
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- Quoted from <1992Dec24.020213.23061@usl.edu> by das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A):
- > In article <jbickers.0m02@templar.actrix.gen.nz> jbickers@templar.actrix.gen.nz (John Bickers) writes:
-
- > > What worthwhile PC OS has programs with consistent user
- > > interfaces?
- >
- > Windows and OS/2 seem to do this pretty well. Hmm, that was _too easy_.
-
- Maybe you have to close your eyes when you look at them. I've used
- a number of PD/shareware OS/2 programs since I got an OS/2 machine
- at work, and they do NOT have consistent user interfaces.
-
- Some run in text mode, some run in graphics mode. Some have menus,
- some don't. Those that have file requesters at all seem to use
- different ones (with the exception of the OS itself). And so on.
-
- > > Also, with Snap or PowerSnap, it is easy to cut and paste from one
- > > application to another. God knows how you do it under Windows or
- > > OS/2.
- >
- > Well, I'm God, and I'll tell you: it's called a CLIPBOARD. oooOOOOoooohh!
- > With OS/2, I can cut and paste between ANY OS/2, Windows, or DOS
- > program (even windowed ones) I think it is pretty neat.
-
- I'll have to investigate this because it is a very useful thing to
- have. Many text mode programs (including DOS sessions) disable the
- mouse, so I assumed that it wasn't possible to snap/paste in those
- screens.
-
- > > The Amiga has better GUI performance than most systems mentioned
- > > here, except maybe the Archimedes.
-
- > That depends on the hardware lergely, does it not? I'd bet a mega
- > Gateway 486/66 with a LocalBus video of ATI Graphics Ultra Pro would
-
- Given comparable hardware, Workbench will outperform the OS/2
- thing. If an A500 outperforms a '386 at window updates, then a
- suitably beefed up Amiga will also outperform a '486. Even if the
- update speed is the same, or close enough for the difference to be
- negligible, the Amiga will be burning less CPU time to get that
- performance.
-
- This is as much a software thing as a hardware thing. The slowest
- Amiga window updates I have ever seen came, funnily enough, from
- a Microsoft product, AmigaBASIC. We've already seen PC advocates
- blabber about how window refreshing is best done the SLOW_REFRESH
- way.
-
- > Dan Stephenson das9674@usl.edu
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