From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: gdb problem or just silly me - please help
Date: Mon, 08 May 2000 20:47:40 +0200
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Damian Yerrick wrote:
> 
> >The addition of LFN functionality when Windows starts is analogous to
> >the additional functionality in, say, keyboard remapping that you get
> >on Unix when you start X.  I fail to see how does this reveal anything
> >(good or bad) about the design.
> 
> That LFN support is tied to having Windows resident in RAM.
> That keyboard remapping is tied to having X resident in RAM.

LFN is a feature of Windows; keyboard remapping is a feature of X.  You
cannot have the feature without starting the package that provides it.

> Product tying is thought to be bad and to result in bloatware;
> hence the *n?x philosophy of "one tool for one job".

A package as large and complex as Windows or X cannot be a tool for a single
job.  If it were, you would need to spend eons to set up all of those one-job
tools so they work.  You'd need a separate tool for graphics, another one for
mouse, yet another for keyboard, one more for fonts, etc., etc.  It would be
a user's nightmare (not that it isn't already ;-).