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krazy, >> In the same way, Windoze 3.0 was so poorly wrote, no matter what >> "new" things it brought to the _Intel_ arena, that a 386 was >> barely capable of running it. I agree that Win30 was not the most robust code ever written, but it wasn't *that* bad. Remember than Win30 was *released* when the 386 was a very new processor and hardly anyone knew its full capabilities. That MS could put out an OS shell that worked with VMs in and of itself was a pretty amazing thing (since VMs didn't even exist when Windows was designed!) >> In a sense, you are right, Windoze 3.0 started the revolution. "We >> give you not efficient code and slow performance to make you buy >> new and faster processors" is the motto of that revolution and >> since then, it has been carved in stone in many walls of many >> companies that wrote, write and will wrote software for Windows >> (and other platforms). Actually most companies at that time optimized the crap out of their code (as I remember it). Even Win30 was optimized to such an extent that most API calls were written in assembly language instead of C. Unfortunately even the fastest code in the world won't make up for design problems. >> Seem that you are old enough to remember Windows 1.02! Hey, hey, hey! It was only 9 years ago! I got 1.02 at the same time I got 1.03. The only difference (if I remember right) was that 1.02 was some sort of foreign language version. Both came with the first PC that I bought. >> (althought to be honest, that revolution started at PARC, not at >> Apple) Well, no it didn't really. The GUI interface *design* was born at PARC but Apple was the first to steal Xerox's ideas. As far as I know Xerox never implemented the GUI design they came up with (could be wrong about that though.) >> (maybe until Windows 95 or Bob come, right?) Don't even mention Bob! <shudder> >> and mainly, because the design and coding was not so brilliant as >> you seem to think. At the time it was pretty damned brilliant IMHO. It mainly "suffered" from design flaws like every other OS (shell, whatever) that's ever been written. >> I hope Gus is reading this and could jump in with some comments >> about Windows 3.0 "structure". Who's Gus? >> Everyone's entitled to their opinon, yes. Even when they are wrong, >> I can't agree more. Touche'. Regards, Marc