Hello Peter!

In your message to Alessandro Tripiccione you wrote:

 PF> [snip]
 PF> (...) even though it does not look like the (awful) thing 
 PF> Windows calls "MDI";  where all the windows
 PF> appear inside of one frame and share a menu.

 PF> Someone trying to port a Windows MDI program to PM and maintain the
 PF> same style are in for a lot of work --- but hopefully good sense will
 PF> prevail and they will abandon (as MS has) the Windows 3.x MDI
 PF> paradigm.

If my memory serves me right, MDI is by no means something invented by MS
or a "Windows paradigm". The MDI definition is part of the CUA
(Common User Access) architecture defined by IBM - and they were very proud
of it! Actually OS/2 was their means to implement a SAA/CUA architecture on
PCs. So the "awful" MDI interface is defined by IBM and belongs
more to OS/2 than to Windows - although I must confess that Windows took
MDI more seriously than OS/2 did...

Servus, Klaus!

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