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Re: JUST REMEMBER WHY WINDOWS WAS CREATED!!!!!!!!!

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From: David Corn
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 1995 00:48
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wahlmann@theta.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Juergen Wahlmann (pg262))
wrote:

>Compared to alternative GUIs that of WinXX is not what I would call good.

I like Win95 - it's nice.  Better and worse than System 7 in different
ways, but far better than WB, if only because WB hasn't been developed
in years.

>One thing that annoys me every time I'm forced to use Win3.x is that I have to
>click on the menu items just like on buttons to get a menu. Why can't I use the
>right mouse button to get a popup menu like on X11, NextStep, Intuition and
>System 7.x?

I suppose this could annoy some people.

>Second, the so called DOS-Box is far away from being as comfortable as a Unix- or
>AmigaDOS shell.

Use Win_One or another, similar shell.

>Third, the wonderful animations of Win95 are not to be switched off.

What are those that you speak of, specifically?
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