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   From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard    
      
   > I have no idea what the rationale of this design is. It seems pretty    
   > goofy to me.   
   >   
      
   The whole one-saved-position-for-every-window-of-this-kind is a bodge,    
   certainly.  But M. Walsh, elsewhere in this thread, has explained the    
   maximization behaviour, which is quite logical.  It's the result of    
   maximising a window that refuses to be re-sized beyond a certain fixed    
   size.  (That behaviour, of course, is in turn down to the way that AVIO    
   presentation spaces work.)   
      
   It happens in all GUI systems that have this sort of mechanism.     
   Maximise a console window in Windows NT, for example, and it will cling    
   to the top-left corner and refuse to expand beyond the fixed size of the    
   screen buffer that it is displaying, in exactly the same way.  It's a    
   simple combination of the maximize action, trying to make the window    
   occupy the entire desktop by moving its origin to a corner and resizing    
   it to fill the entire available space, and a window that refuses to    
   expand beyond a certain fixed size, because its client area is a fixed    
   N-by-M matrix of fixed-size character cells and their size and font    
   governs the window rather than vice versa.   
      
      
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