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Re: Geoworks

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From: randy hyde
Date: Wed, 12 Jun 1991 00:18
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>> Why not C++?

If you're willing to live with such inefficiencies, why not stick to
windows 3.0?
GEOWORKS got its speed by code (well) written in assembly.  If people starting
writing apps in C or C++ for it, the performance of those apps would be nowhere
near as good as the GEOWORKS apps.
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From: rhyde@hubbell.ucr.edu (randy hyde)
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Subject: Re: Geoworks
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