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To: Reginald Middleton who wrote (14227)11/18/1997 3:13:00 PM
From: Charles Hughes  Read Replies (1) of 24154
 
>>>You are starting to contradict yourself. The reason there are more apps available for Windows is becasue MSFT recognized the need for graphical computing and capitalized on it before the competition.<<<

What in the world are you talking about here? Which competition? The Amiga folks didn't understand graphical computing? Ever hear of Sun? Evans & sutherland? Xerox? Macintosh? Ever hear of Andrew and M3? X-windows?

They *all* beat Microsoft into that arena.

>>>MSFT was not only the first, but hte only significant vendor willing to write productibity apps for Windows 1.0 and 2.0<<<

Because these systems were unused and nearly unusable. The tools were atrocious. The OSs crashed hourly. It took Microsoft 10 years to get it right.

The vendors had better platforms to do graphics on. PC graphics products vendors wrote to DOS in the 80's, because early Windows didn't cut it. Top-market graphics vendors wrote to other platforms, primarily Mac and Unix, and the low end vendors wrote to Amiga and DOS. By 1994, Microsoft finally had something to offer that worked well enough. Very late in the game. In the 80's there weren't hardly any graphics functions in microsoft compilers or even in the Windows API. (You could paint to the DC and do some text and get the mouse location, that's pretty much it. All the actual graphics manipulations were up to the programmer, and to 3rd party library vendors.)

Chaz
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