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Subject:	Re: DJGPP: the future is... ?
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In article <01be7886$a17c9600$LocalHost AT thendren>, paradox AT gye DOT satnet DOT net 
says...

>I also think that this is an excellent idea.  And there's really no reasons
>not to use Allegro as the foundation for the graphics interface.  It's 
fast,
>very optimized, and very stable.  It has a huge user base, and is
>sufficiently generalized to allow us to use it for the graphics server.
>
>Which is not to say that we should use it's dialog method, since, even 
Shawn
>Hargraeves admits that they're mostly apt for quick-and-dirty interfaces.
>This is really the biggest thing that is missing.
>
>I personally don't like Windows that much at all, but I do note that it has
>standardized a lot of things.  This is a "good thing" for users.  A
>windowing/GUI system that is sufficiently general to accept different
>"low-level" graphics servers would be an excellent help, since most people
>have to write their own, and then users must learn a new interface w/ each
>different program.  And the whole reason that people wanted to move away
>from DOS is it's lack of comfortable, standardized GUI interfaces.

And the whole reason people are moving away from Windows and towards Linux 
is because of Windows "comfortable, standardized GUI interface". and the 
utter crap that resulted from it.

Sorry your pro-GUI logic just doesn't wash....

 

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