*off-topic* (GUIs)

[OkAnnie@xxxxxxxx]

Well, since Harmon Seaver (hseaver@xxxxxxxx) chose to post
to the xylist off-topic email I sent him, and to reply to it via
the list, I suppose I should respond here too.

After Harmon questioned on the list why anyone would "want" to
use Windows, I noted privately that, for folks who need to use
high-end apps that can exist only in a graphical environment, the
choice is Windows or a Mac. The 80x86 gui that Corel, Quark, and
other high-end graphics developers write for is
Windows. Harmon answered via the xylist:

:   Actually, Annie, the high-end graphics people :   wouldn't go
near a windoz machine. They invariably : use an Indy or Iris from
Silicon Graphics, or a Sun : or HP workstation--or at the least,
a very, very, : beefed-up Mac.

I had assumed that it was obvious my use of the term "high-end"
was in the context of microcomputers. Sorry if that wasn't clear.


:   A crummy 16bit windoz system doesn't :  have the muscle to do
real graphics--those apps are :  for the sandbox league desktop
publishing crowd.

A debate based on insults ...

:   Admittedly, OS/2 is handicapped by a lack--thus far
:   --of native 32bit apps which utilize it's power :  and the
32bit hardware, but this situation is : changing--Corel says it
will have a native OS/2 :  version out this year. When they do, I
can :   finally rid my machine of that cursed code. : Actually,
when the PowerPC hits the market : later this year, the whole
scene will change :  quite rapidly. I'll be able to run those
high-end : Mac graphic programs under OS/2, and any developer : l
ike Corel who doesn't port their software over will :   join the
CP/M developers. And that, of course, means : a total re-writing
of all windoz applications, :   whereas the OS/2 apps just have to
be recompiled. : This means, of course, that the "vast market
base" :  of windoz apps will just hit the trash bin.

... and speculation regarding PPC or Warp vaporware does not
engage my interest. If you want to debate someone else, there are
venues on the 'net more appropriate than the xylist. --Annie

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