From: oml1 AT Ra DOT MsState DOT Edu (Owen LaGarde)
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Subject: Re: "Make DJGPP shine bright, make it Windows..." Ugh.
Date: 20 May 1997 14:37:01 GMT
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*flame on, Jonnie!*

   A lot of programs work better if they can be coded for windoz??? 
PUH-LEAZ! 

   The only advantage I've ever seen for a Windows app over any other
environment is that of access to a massive user market -- oops, sorry,
that's an advantage in terms of profit potential, not functionality.  
Well, gee, come to think of it, I don't know of anything Windows has 
ever brought to the table that's unique or even superior to other parallel
products.  Let's see... flaky time-share multitasking that Geos, MacOs,
Linux, BSD, etc., all do with infinitely greater stability, fake multi-
user via multiple environ. configs that all of the above do in concurrent
sessions, et cetera, et cetera.  What in the world has Windows been doing 
that requires two to three times the hardware required for x386 Unix?  
Christ, Geos did as much on a C128, so did the Amiga in 512k.  NT looks 
like it might finally be [mostly] stable, and Win95's "safe mode" traps 
problems ... most of the time ... thanks, but I'll stick with OS's 
designed to run uninterrupted and for a large part unmonitored for weeks 
or even months at a time given completely arbitrary actions by users that
might or might not know what they're doing.  I'm kinda used to being able 
to depend on the stability of the system, ya'know.
-- 
 Owen LaGarde                           |     Performance prediction through
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 oml1 AT ra DOT msstate DOT edu (130.18.80.10)     |   "... Oh, what a Tangled Web ..."