Re: TTG marketing woes

[Robert Holmgren holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

Paul Falzer:

> I can only assume that you don't actually use GUI software. There are good
> reasons for working in a GUI environment, not the least of which is the
> ability to do more than one thing at a time, along with the ability to
> transform textual and graphic information . . . Further, WinWord's keyboard
> is more easily and fully configurable than XyWrite's. WinWord is more
> stable, more full-featured, and far better than XyWin in every conceivable
> respect but one: . . . [clunk]

Paul, I don't know WinWord, but dabbled extensively with Word|DOS for two
years (in the early 90s). Never really mastered Word, but admired it. And
you're right: it's a powerhouse. My impression of Word at the time was
somewhat akin to DeScribe later on: that Word did things, not better or
worse, but Differently. Still, I'm very curious: What, specifically, do
you do with the WinWord keyboard that you can't do with XyWrite's KBD file
and its offspring? Can you cite an example or two? A particular
operation? (Frankly, I used to employ the KBD intensively, but don't
anymore -- merely use it to launch processes that reside in Help). And
when you say that WinWord is "far better in every conceivable respect", a
categorical & sweeping statement indeed, can you make a showing that
it's true? I'd enjoy particulars.

One assertion struck a strange chord. Doing "more than one thing at a
time", i.e. multitasking -- or multithreading within tasks (is that what
you mean?) -- has nothing to do with GUIs, but is wholly dependent upon the
operating system. Only Windows and Apple compel you to use a GUI to reap the
huge benefits of multitasking (if that's what you can truly call it under
Windows; more like a sluggish Software Carousel, IMO). Other operating
systems do not require a GUI. Is your perspective shaped by Windows, or what?



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Robert Holmgren
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