The issue wasn't that another OS may have become
better should things have gone a different route -
it's that windows *is* better *because* of all the
software written for it! Sure, if everyone had
written all their apps for Qube or something, then
that would be better.
The issue wasn't the OS, it's speed or
stability...simply the fact that it's standard and has
much more to offer.
Apart from this, don't try to belittle me - I've used
DesqView, and though yes if things went a different
route another OS may have been better than windows,
but not desqview. I've tried more than my share of
non-windows OS's - DesqView lacked the ability to run
graphics applications...it's multitasking isn't
particularly intelligent...go ahead and try running
Arachne in it for example. I'll leave it at that.
- W0rm
--- "L.D. Best" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Worm,
>
> You're young maybe, and made the statement about
> Windows being better
> because you've known little else?
>
> There was a company that produced DOS-based software
> which made Windows
> look like the slow, kludgy, bloated mess that it is;
> consequently, it
> was a company that Microsoft did everything possible
> to drive out of
> business. They succeeded. Quarterdeck, and
> DESQview, died after much
> struggle.
>
> There weren't a bunch of GUIs in DV. DV would run
> just about every DOS
> program, and would have run more if Quarterdeck
> hadn't been driven first
> out of the country, then out of business. The first
> decent time-slicing
> user friendly software resided in DV.
>
> BION, many software developers *hate* having to work
> to make their
> software function under Windows contraints. My
> heavens, no DOS program
> was expected to have precisely the same type help
> system, precisely the
> same command/control keys, precisely the same
> look/feel as every other
> program out there ... but to develop for Windows
> that's how it must be
> done, or your software won't get sold. :<
>
> If there were a viabile alternative to Dozerwarez,
> those software
> developers would LUV to shorten, clean-up, and
> rewrite their programs to
> their *own* standards. Honest -- no decent
> programmer *likes* spaghetti
> code, and that's what dozerwarez applications are
> expected to have.
>
> Windows WASN'T always better, ISN'T always better,
> and NEVER will be
> "always better" because to make better/best
> comparisons there has to be
> two things of pretty much equal design &/or
> function. And M$ management
> and ownership has made its main goal the destruction
> of any and all
> viable, or potentially viable, competition.
>
> And that is why some of us still make comparisons
> and still dream. If
> references are made to Windows in those comparisons,
> it is only because
> so many people are ignorant of better software ...
> having never used a
> computer until after M$ had taken its "market
> share."
>
> l.d.
> ====
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