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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Path: sparky!uunet!microsoft!hexnut!iank
- From: iank@microsoft.com (Ian Kennedy)
- Subject: Re: The 'Screens' debate:
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.191135.798@microsoft.com>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 19:11:35 GMT
- Organization: Microsoft Corporation
- References: <1992Dec24.015546.22863@usl.edu> <72373@cup.portal.com> <1992Dec25.033622.2768@usl.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec25.033622.2768@usl.edu> das9674@usl.edu (Stephenson Daniel A) writes:
- >In article <72373@cup.portal.com> TomK@cup.portal.com (Tom R Krotchko) writes:
- >>
- >>The Windows MDI is similar in concept to multiple screens.
- >
- >What is that?
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- MDI = Multiple Document Interface. It is an API for handling
- an application with multiple documents open at once under once
- "parent" window. I really don't see how it is like the screen
- system on an Amiga at all.
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