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From: "Neil Miller" <miller AT citilink DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: "Make DJGPP shine bright, make it Windows..." Ugh.
Date: 20 May 1997 21:07:35 GMT
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Owen LaGarde <oml1 AT Ra DOT MsState DOT Edu> wrote in article
<5lscud$oij$1 AT NNTP DOT MsState DOT Edu>...
> *flame on, Jonnie!*
> 
>    A lot of programs work better if they can be coded for windoz??? 
> PUH-LEAZ!  
>    The only advantage I've ever seen for a Windows app over any other
> environment is that of access to a massive user market -- oops, 

 How about ease of use, there are a lot of people that aren't as proficient
at using computers as you are.  Tell me if some little kid could start up
some program, and play it as easily in a different OS than in Windows (you
spelled it wrong, I'll correct you).  Although I prefer some Microsoft
products, I have many gripes.  I think there are other companies who should
take lessons from Mr. Gates, namely Lotus.  Their office software sucks.  I
got their office suite pre-bundled on my computer.  This seemed like it
would be alright, until I tried to make a presentation using Freelance
Graphics, and after 4 slides it was 10 megs.  Where's Powerpoint when you
need it.  Microsoft could get better, but when I can replace all my
software with software that is BETTER than Microsofts I will, but I don't
think that will happen for a while.
-- 
Neil Miller
miller AT citilink DOT com
http://www.citilink.com/~miller/welcome.html


>sorry,
> that's an advantage in terms of profit potential, not functionality.  

Oh, so you don't like profit?  Sorry.

> Well, gee, come to think of it, I don't know of anything Windows has 
> ever brought to the table that's unique or even superior to other
parallel
> products.  Let's see... flaky time-share multitasking that Geos, MacOs,
> Linux, BSD, etc., all do with infinitely greater stability, fake multi-
> user via multiple environ. configs that all of the above do in concurrent
> sessions, et cetera, et cetera.  What in the world has Windows been doing

> that requires two to three times the hardware required for x386 Unix?  
> Christ, Geos did as much on a C128, so did the Amiga in 512k.  NT looks 
> like it might finally be [mostly] stable, and Win95's "safe mode" traps 
> problems ... most of the time ... thanks, but I'll stick with OS's 
> designed to run uninterrupted and for a large part unmonitored for weeks 
> or even months at a time given completely arbitrary actions by users that
> might or might not know what they're doing.  I'm kinda used to being able

> to depend on the stability of the system, ya'know.
> -- 
>  Owen LaGarde                           |     Performance prediction
through
>  Forest Products Research Laboratory    |       AI-driven process
simulation
>  Mississippi State University           | 
>  oml1 AT ra DOT msstate DOT edu (130.18.80.10)     |   "... Oh, what a Tangled Web
.."
> 

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