From: "Christopher Nelson" <paradox AT gye DOT satnet DOT net>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: DJGPP: the future is... ?
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 1999 14:03:21 -0700
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Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

>>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....


wow, Flames?

anyhow, the whole point is that GUI is good.  have you ever tried to model
an atom with a text-mode screen?  how good would Quake have looked at 80x50
and 16 colors?  and last of all, if you want to create a professional
quality document, you will find that all proffesional quality tools are
GUI's.

part of the huge increase in people using computers is from the
"Easy-to-use" image that Windows projects.  all of my programming contracts
require that the program be a GUI.

people move away from Windows because of Microsoft's domineering,
de-comoditiing tactics, and it's attempts to force you to support only their
software.  the reason that OS's like Solaris, OS/2, and environments like
X-Windows exist are because the GUI is cool.  there will always be a place
for a command-line, but you must also admit that GUI's are very elegant and
useful.

the problem with Windows is not precisely it's interface, but the
corporation behind it.

        -={C}=-