
Students Guide to Information
Technology
Windows
Early versions of Windows were much inferior to the Mac/GEM
environment, and little application software was written to take
advantage of this environment. With version 3, released in 1990,
Windows has become a fully fledged graphical user interface. Its
desktop somewhat resembles the Mac/GEM Desktop, with scroll
bars,
pull-down menus, icons, dialogue boxes, etc. The virtually
identical product for the PS/2, Presentation Manager, appeared a
couple of years earlier.
Although it arrived late on the scene, Windows 3 is much more
powerful than GEM, as it overcomes the two main limitations of
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