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- From: fheitkamp@desire.wright.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: CBM mention on 12/11/92 Computer Chronicles
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.080030.6374@desire.wright.edu>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 08:00:30 EST
- References: <1hnj22INNkan@uwm.edu> <1992Dec28.202743.17526@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Organization: Wright State University
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- In article <1992Dec28.202743.17526@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>, jerry@msi.com (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
- > Gregory R Block (bloc1469@ee.ee.uwm.edu) wrote:
- >
- > I always found it rather well-designed and powerful. It has complete
- > device independence for graphics, sound, and printing devices. How many
- > kludges and hacks are this flexible?
- >
- One thing I don't like about Windows is that if you kill off
- a parent window to clean up the screen, its chidren go too.
- Is there a way around this? I like Amigas better in this
- respect. If I can state an *opinion*I find Windows to be
- fairly complete feature wise, but not nearly as easy to use as
- Workbench. And in terms of reliability, Windows seems to crash
- about the same rate as Workbench, so thats a wash.
- > :
- > : I'm not going to get into this any further, because I've said more
- > : than enough on the subject. Suffice to say that one would call Unix
- > : and Plan 9 worthwhile because they are.
- > :
- >
- > As is Windows.
-
- From my limited perspective I find that most people *whom I
- know* who have used Amiga's or Macs are not too impressed with
- Windows. But, MS-DOS users either love it or hate it. Now,
- is my opinion any less valid because I don't write for a
- PC magazine or work for IBM?
-
- >
- > :
- > : Agreed. Windows NT could be one of the OSes of the decade.
- > : Unfortunately, it's going to miss that mark by twice as much as OS/2
- > : did.
- > :
- >
- > How can you say that without ever seeing the released product?
-
- Well the press has already told us that we will like it and use
- it and that it's going to blow U*nx out of the water all without
- it being released yet. Kinda reminds me of the presidential
- election.
-
- >
- > : Greg
- > --
- > +-------------------+----------------------------+---------------------------+
- > | JERRY J. SHEKHEL | Molecular Simulations Inc. | Time just fades the pages |
- > | Drummers do it... | Burlington, MA USA | in my book of memories. |
- > | ... In rhythm! | jerry@msi.com | -- Guns N' Roses |
- > +-------------------+----------------------------+---------------------------+
- Fred Heitkamp, ** Not an organization. My opinions only **
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