GUI in Python under MSDOS?
Steve Holden
sholden at bellatlantic.net
Mon Feb 28 00:15:09 EST 2000
Richard Smol wrote:
>
> [trying to help a fellow-Pythonista with the DOS environment]
>
> Porting Tk to DOS would not be trivial, since there would be no
> base-widgets to work with. It would be great fun though to make
> it work. You might get stuff like those those early "Windows-lookalike"
> DOS apps (anyone remember WordPerfect 6.0 for DOS?)
>
Yes, indeed. This was where Corel failed to find Open Source (first time
around) and Windoze won the market. Great product, shame about the
marketshare.
Here's-hoping-people-realise-the-most-popular-products-are-not-always-best-ly
y'rs - Steve
--
"If computing ever stops being fun, I'll stop doing it"
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