GUI

[James Knott]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 06:05:25PM -0500, James Knott wrote:
> 
>>Windows???  Original???  Don't you recall the lawsuit, when they 
>>imitated the Mac desktop?  GUIs didn't even originate with Apple.  They 
>>were invented at Xerox, which Apple then borrowed for the Mac.
>>
>>As far as desktops go, the best by far is the workplace shell in OS/2. 
>>There's not another desktop that comes anywhere near it's capabilities.
> 
> 
> All I remember was ow OS/2 felt like it was assembled by hundreds of
> independant teams that didn't talk to each other. Related options where
> spread all over in different tabbed windows in no sensible order.  What
> a mess.  And from what I read about people trying to write multimedia
> apps for OS/2 it was horrible to develop on.  Of course I never tried to
> write any programs for OS/2.  I prefered Linux at the time I met OS/2.
> I still do.

I can't say much about that, as the only "development" I did on it, was 
homework for my C programming class and a few small REXX programs.  One 
"fun" thing I came across in that C homework, was the different variable 
sizes in the Borland C++ (OS/2) I had at home and Turbo C++ (DOS), which 
we used in class.  I'd write my program and it would run fine at home, 
but then in class next day, I'd over run some variable.  However, the 
same problem would have occured if I'd used Borland C++ for Windows.

As for the settings, I don't recall the problem being that bad, though 
there certainly was room for some improvement.  However the same could 
certainly be said for Linux.



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