From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

"Geo."  wrote in message news:3df14030{at}w3.nls.net...
> What made windows a hit was the single driver model and app
> vendors like Ventura and PageMaker supplying runtime windows
> so they could do WYSIWYG page layout programs and have
> them work with lots of hardware. Nobody cared about a GUI,
> they just got tired of hunting down a printer and video driver
> for every app they used.

Heh heh, even I remember having to say "no, we can't print this, but I
can save this into a file and then we can open it with *that* program and
print it there, because we have the printer driver for that program. It
won't look exactly like it does now on this program, though..."


Yeppers, it was so nice to not have to care much about what printer was
installed, but just print and actually have it work.


Antti Kurenniemi

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