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The so called "experts" have been lauding the arrival of Windows 3.0, and those of us at the receiving end of the ah  technology chain can hardly move without someone trying to ram it down our throats. Is this good? XIt can be. While many of us are perfectly contents operating under characterbased DOS, and not likely to see any fast gains in our personal productivity levels by embracing Windows, we'd have a hard time arguing with the fact that for ah  a large majority of (hesitant) users, using a graphicallybased environment makes that pile of transistors on the corner of the desk more accessible. Let's face it, C:\> is not a terribly comforting thing for most people to be faced with. XThe question then, ultimately, is not will a graphical user interface become the standard for PC computing, but when , and which one ? For now, there's only one answer, and it's Windows. OS/2 PM still isn't ready, nor are the variations on ah  UNIX, and in any rate, most folks simply don't have the hardware necessary to make either of those choices feasible. GEO DOS promises to be a suitable alternative, but we've heard that story before, haven't we? So far, Windows is all we ah  have. XNow for the bad news. Although it will run on an 8088/86 based PC, there are an increasing number of applications for Windows that won't. Maybe that's not such bad news after all. ah  Microsoft recommends at least a fast 80286, but that's optimism at its best. If you don't have at least an 80386SX based machine, with 4 MB of RAM, Windows is likely to ah  disappoint you . It will run with a much lower level of resources to draw upon, but it's VERY slow. You can get by with 2 MB, but if you try to run multiple applications concurrently, you're going to spend more time wondering why you bothered. DOS will start to look pretty good to you. X Some of the things we usually report on in IYMSR become ah  irrelevant under Windows, so this issue discusses, for example, ah  RAM usage of individual programs little to not at all. You will see occasional references to "system resources used" here, and the concept is similar, but it's so involved, making comparisons based on this criteria is not always fair. Instead, we've tried to give you a general feel for comfort levels, ease of learning, and the like.  /Ԍ<>Some products are reviewed alone, some with others from their segment. As you can tell from the length of this issue (remember when IYMSR ran sixteen pages?), this group ah  reviewed here is by no means complete. We simply ran out of space, and time. <>As always, we have a short opinion to be conveyed, at the end. Enjoy   yA`f8ddYAB_SIGy h  <LHE. 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