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A well-conceived windows interface for the development environment is 
fine provided that you are generating Windows code and that it can be 
debugged inside the environment. For people such as myself who develop 
for bare metal or for DOS a rigorous GUI approach can cause a lot of 
problems.

Having said that, most of the time I run my number-1 development machine 
under OS/2 (with quite a few DOS windows), and although there are 
differences when it comes to "accurate" timing of code etc. it is fairly 
unobtrusive.

The one thing that did occur to me when I was reading your original 
posting is that one major advantage of Windows is the support of DLLs, 
but since TopSpeed does this fairly competently under DOS this cannot be 
used as a valid argument.

Mark Morgan Lloyd
mark_tbu@cix.compulink.co.uk

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