From: hardarso@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (Kari Hardarson)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Deep thoughts
Date: 13 Apr 92 15:56:10 GMT
Organization: University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

A plethora of stray thoughts about Windows & other wonderful gadgets:

1)  I downloaded the Panasonic printer drivers for the PX-1180 from
    wu.wustl...  The installation programs didn't work, what's worse
    they trashed my Windows setup.  When I added their drivers using
    built-in commands in the Printers application, things worked fine.
    Just a warning.. This may be redundant, now that everyone and his
    brother are switching to 3.1, where the driver comes included.

2)  When I select a font using menus in Word Perfect & Paintbrush, some 
    fonts will be downloaded from windows, whereas others are native
    to my printer.  How can I tell the difference in the menu? I don't
    want to use the native fonts, because they lack symbols used in my
    language.  If I stumble upon one of them,  those symbol don't print
    or are replaced with the wrong symbols.

3)  Here's a point to ponder:  Although the Macintosh has been very
    popular, business programs haven't been ported to it.  I'm wondering
    why that is and whether the same thing will happen to the Windows
    environment;  people will leave it to run their "critical applications".
    By critical, I mean payroll, inventory, etc, where programmers will
    catch Hell if their application fails.  Or is it because business
    programmers are grunts who can't be bothered with the intricacies 
    of user-friendliness. (Toungue in cheek).

4)  Now that Truetype fonts are here, does that mean printers should
    have less intelligence built in?  What is the cheapest printer that
    will do full credit to documents created in Windows 3.1?  More 
    specifically:  Is there any point in buying an HP-III when a 
    Canon Bubblejet can print Truetype fonts?  (Which I presume it can).

5)  Why does the Windows vs. OS/2 question start religious wars on the
    conference?  It doesn't matter what we say here, money talks and
    the decision is out of our hands.  Remember VHS vs. Beta?  The
    market chose VHS, despite those who insisted Beta was technically
    superior.  Let these things run their course and let's not waste
    bandwidth on flames.  We can discuss these things, but why get so
    worked up about them when we can't vote?  I'm implicitly assuming
    that if you have the time to read this, you're probably not in
    the money ;->

6)  I was wondering:  All those people writing to this conference about bugs
    they are finding.  Shouldn't Microsoft be putting those on the payroll
    that come up with the bugs and report them so dutifully?

I have run out of thoughts.


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