Subject: Three Versions of Chinese Windows available in Taiwan

From: "Huang, Chih-Hsien" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 1991 17:10:00 +1000

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Dear CCNETter,

It seems to me some of you are very much interested in Chinese Windows.  In
fact, in Taiwan, Chinese Windows is hotly discussing on mazagines recently.
For example, Eten Magazine has a special report on Chinese Windows last
issue, p.51-p.72, Aug. 1991.  (Eten Magazine is supported by Eten Infomation
System Co., Ltd.)

There are three Chinese version of Windows 3.0 available in Taiwan:
( NOTE: in chronological order )
o  EverGreen Windows 3.0 Chinese System
  (Chang2 Qing1 Shi4 Chuang1 3.0 Zhong1 Wen1 Xi4 Tong3)
o  Chinese MicroComputer Windows Environment 3.0
  (Zhong1 Wen2 Wei2 Dian4 Nao3 Shi4 Chuang1 Huan2 Jing4 3.0)
o  Microsoft Chinese Windows 3.0
  (Microsoft Windows 3.0 Zhong1 Wen2 Ban3)

Well, enclosed is a table translated from Eten Magazine, Aug. 1991, p.72,
a comparison of these three versions.  I am a sophomore, with poor Chinese-
Computing terms.  Please forgive me if I didn't translate them properly;
really, I tried my best.

BTW, some CCNETter asked me to provide them some software info in Taiwan,
especially Chinese Desktop Publishing Softwares.  Sure, I can tell you
there are dozens of high-quality Publishing Systems in Taiwan.  You know,
many magazines in Taiwan, Computer magazines in particular, are outputed
by these systems.  But most of them have Chinese catalogs only, and it
is very difficult for me to translate them into Chinese; mainly, some
tech-terms I don't know how to translate them.  I will try but please
don't expect me too much.

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|            |               | EverGreen     | Chinese       |               |
|            | Microsoft     | Windows 3.0   | MicroComputer | Microsoft     |
| WINDOWS 3.0|               | Chinese       | Windows       | Chinese       |
|            | Windows 3.0   | System        | Environment   | Windows 3.0   |
|            |               |               | 3.0           |               |
|------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------|
|            | Microsoft     | EG-Tek        | Institute for | Microsoft     |
|            | Corporation   |               | Information   | Corporation,  |
| Developer  |               |               | Industry (III)| Taiwan &      |
|            |               |               |               | You3 Li4      |
|            |               |               |               | Infomation    |
|------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------|
| No. of     | 4952552 bytes | 3587164 bytes | 4361164 bytes | 12116221 bytes|
| Disks      | 1.2M ( 5 )    | 1.2M ( 3 )    | 1.2M ( 4 )    | 1.2M ( 11 )   |
|------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------|
| Time Needed|               |               |               |               |
| for Instal-| 7 - 8 min.    | 20 - 25 min.  | 5 - 6 min.    | 17 - 18 min.  |
| lation     |               |               |               |               |
|------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------|
| Software   |               |               |               | Eten Chinese  |
| Needed for | None          | Microsoft     | Microsoft     | System when   |
| Instal-    |               | Windows 3.0   | Windows 3.0   | running SETUP |
| lation     |               |               |               | (optional)    |
|------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------|
|            |               | Title, Status,| Title, Status,| completely in |
| Level of   |               | Menu bar,     | Icon, all in  | Chinese,      |
| Chinese-   |               | Dialog Box,   | Chinese       | including     |
| ization    |               | Icon, all in  |               | On-Line Help  |
|            |               | Chinese       |               |               |
|------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------|
|            |               | Keyboard input| Keyboard/Mouse| Keyboard input|
| Input      |               | access, Half- | input access, | access, Half/ |
| access,    |               | character,    | Half/Full-    | Full-character|
| Half/Full- |               | Chinese/      | character,    | Chinese/      |
| character  |               | English       | Chinese/      | English       |
|            |               |               | English       |               |
|------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------|
|            | Courier, Helv,| Song, Li, Kai | Bitmap fonts  | Courier, Helv,|
| Fonts      | Modern, Roman,|               |(Support Hua-  | Symbol,       |
|            | Script, Symbol|               | Kang DynaFont)| Tms Rmn,      |
|            | Tms Rmn       |               |               | CFShouSong    |
|------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------|
|            |               | Inner-code,   | Zhu Yin,      | Inner-code,   |
| Input      |               | Chang Jie,    | Chang Jie,    | Zhu Yin,      |
| Method     |               | Jian Yi,      | Inner-code,   | Su Cheng,     |
|            |               | Zhu Yin,      | Su Cheng      | Chang Jie     |
|            |               | Da Yi         |               |               |
|------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------|
| Coded-     |               | Big5, TCA,    | Big5, TCA     | Big5          |
| method     |               | GB2312-80     |               |               |
|------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------|
| Memory     |               | 28K Bytes     | 36K Bytes     | 35K Bytes     |
| held       |               | (approx.)     | (approx.)     | (approx.)     |
|------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------|
|            |               | under Windowed| Under Windowed| under Windowed|
|            |               | DOS able to   | DOS not only  | DOS able to   |
|            |               | display Chi-  | able to dis-  | display Chi-  |
| Other      |               | nese, but     | play Chinese, | nese, but     |
| Functions  |               | small and not | but larger and| small and not |
|    &       |               | clear enough  | clearer       | clear enough. |
| Features   |               |               |               | However, it   |
|            |               |               |               | can be solved |
|            |               |               |               | when co-works |
|            |               |               |               | with ETen     |
|            |               |               |               | Chinese System|
|------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------|
|            | (skipped)     | Ren Ren Office| Color Drawing | Convert all   |
|            |               | System, Utili-| (Cai Zhi Hui),| softwares     |
|            |               | ties for Chi- | Zu Hong, Input| under English |
|            |               | nese System,  | Methods, Uti- | version into  |
|            |               | Input Methods,| lities, Make- | Chinese, and  |
| Sofewares  |               | NEWRC.EXE     | word program, | Make-word pro-|
|            |               |               | Chinese       | gram, Fonts,  |
|            |               |               | installation  | Input Methods,|
|            |               |               | Program,      | CONVERT.COM,  |
|            |               |               | Notepad,      | PRNTSCRN.COM  |
|            |               |               | CWINDOWS.EXE  |               |
|------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------|
|            |               | Since all     | Accompanied   | CONVERT.COM   |
|            |               | programs are  | with practical| is for con-   |
|            |               | compressed,   | softwares.    | verting Big5  |
|            |               | we suggest    | Quick instal- | into CNS, TCA,|
|            |               | you'd better  | lation.       | IBM5550, ETen |
|            |               | copy them into|               | coded methods.|
|            |               | harddisk, and |               | PRNTSCRN.COM  |
|            |               | then uncom-   |               | is able to    |
| Notes      |               | press them.   |               | adapt the mes-|
|            |               | Moreover, you |               | sages under   |
|            |               | have to run   |               | Windowed DOS  |
|            |               | some programs |               | for other     |
|            |               | to convert    |               | applications. |
|            |               | WINDOWS into  |               | Displaying    |
|            |               | Chinese.      |               | Chinese under |
|            |               |               |               | Windowed DOS  |
|            |               |               |               | has a very bad|
|            |               |               |               | performance.  |
|------------+---------------+---------------+---------------+---------------|
| Price      | US$ 149       | NT$ 1400      | NT$ 2000      | NT$ 5000      |
|            | NT$ 5000      |               |               |               |
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