From: "Neil Miller" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: "Make DJGPP shine bright, make it Windows..." Ugh. Date: 20 May 1997 21:07:35 GMT Organization: (missing) Lines: 58 Message-ID: <01bc656a$179dfd60$49d20bce@miller> References: <199705192209 DOT RAA20892 AT rrnet DOT com> <01bc6456$ab061980$9141d9cd AT null> <01bc64c4$2e6b8fe0$4ad20bce AT miller> <5lscud$oij$1 AT NNTP DOT MsState DOT Edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp44.citilink.com To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Owen LaGarde wrote in article <5lscud$oij$1 AT NNTP DOT MsState DOT Edu>... > *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, How about ease of use, there are a lot of people that aren't as proficient at using computers as you are. Tell me if some little kid could start up some program, and play it as easily in a different OS than in Windows (you spelled it wrong, I'll correct you). Although I prefer some Microsoft products, I have many gripes. I think there are other companies who should take lessons from Mr. Gates, namely Lotus. Their office software sucks. I got their office suite pre-bundled on my computer. This seemed like it would be alright, until I tried to make a presentation using Freelance Graphics, and after 4 slides it was 10 megs. Where's Powerpoint when you need it. Microsoft could get better, but when I can replace all my software with software that is BETTER than Microsofts I will, but I don't think that will happen for a while. -- Neil Miller miller AT citilink DOT com http://www.citilink.com/~miller/welcome.html >sorry, > that's an advantage in terms of profit potential, not functionality. Oh, so you don't like profit? Sorry. > 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 > Forest Products Research Laboratory | AI-driven process simulation > Mississippi State University | > oml1 AT ra DOT msstate DOT edu (130.18.80.10) | "... Oh, what a Tangled Web .." >