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Joined: 24 Oct 2007
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Location: OTTAWA, ONTARIO, CANADA
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We have been on the SCO Unix (& formerly Xenix) platforms for 15 years or so. We've have seen their ups and downs and through it all have been amazed at their seeming failure to capitalize and make full use of the graphical windows aspects/capabilities of the operating system.
Extreme complexity of activation of the windows-like environment kept us at the character screens -- and I am sure thousands upon thousands of other users -- as Windows and Apple Macs skated right on by to dominate the marketplace worldwide.
I believe the general public still thinks of 'basic" programs as character-only: they are unaware by and large of their GUI capabilities/aspects.
SUGGEST YOU NOT MAKE SAME MISTAKE AS SCO: THAT YOU PLAY UP AND EMPHASIZE AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY THE WINDOWS-LIKE CAPABILITIES OF THIS "GUI" PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE: AND OF ITS ABILITY TO FACILITATE TRANSITIONS FROM LEGACY CHARACTER APPS AND DATA FILES TO MODERN WEB, WINDOWS AND DATA BASE STORAGE SYSTEMS/CAPABILITIES. |
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