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From: sthorpe AT inconnect DOT inconnect DOT com (Stuart Thorpe)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: "Make DJGPP shine bright, make it Windows..." Ugh.
Date: 22 May 1997 16:33:11 GMT
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: > > Windoze??!! GOD FORBID!!
: > >
: > > if people want to play billy boy's game let them use his f*****g
: > > compiler.
: > 
: > See, this is where you guys are completely and totally wrong.  If you
: > hate Bill so much, you should be praying that somebody does port the GNU
: > utils to a windows environment, that way you don't have to use Visual
: > C++, you don't have to buy his tools, and you can work on a completely
: > different set of standards than his.  But as long as you people bitch
: > about how windows sucks, how djgpp sucks, how Bill Gates sucks, nothing
: > is ever going to get done.  Why can't we stop bitching and get to work
: > already?  If you hate him so much, start doing something about it or shutup.

I don't agree, mainly why support a Shell (or OS if your believe that)
that sucks so bad. In all the OS's I have ever run (and that is a lot of
them) I don't get the downtime you get with ANY windows version from
microsoft. DJGPP is wonderful at DOS, and works well with NON-MS Dos which
is wonderful. My opnion is that ported GNU compilers and tools to windoze
is a waste of resource and time. Until Bill Gates gets his act together
and starts asking for good OS's again I just don't think it is worth it.

But if you want it, just do it.. That is usually the way to get it going
anyway. I don't think DJ was begged, forced, or held at gunpoint to port
GNU stuff over to DOS, he just did it, and a wonderful job at that.

These are My opnions, I do not force them on anyone. No riping on spelling 
or grammer, I am not a english major and as long as the compiler knows
what I am saying I could care less everywhere else. Intelligent flames, or
rebukes will be read, other will be passed over.

Stuart 

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