From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Aug 21 6:41:47 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from probity.mcc.ac.uk (probity.mcc.ac.uk [130.88.200.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3188337B423 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 06:41:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org ([130.88.200.97]) by probity.mcc.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 2.05 #4) id 13Qrpb-0008cI-00; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 14:41:39 +0100 Received: (from jcm@localhost) by dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA16077; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 14:41:37 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jcm) Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 14:41:37 +0100 From: j mckitrick To: The Clark Family Cc: David Kelly , narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee, brooks@one-eyed-alien.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! Message-ID: <20000821144137.D13975@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> References: <200008151718.e7FHIbb13082@mail.hiwaay.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from res03db2@gte.net on Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 01:27:57PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 01:27:57PM -0700, The Clark Family wrote: | | At least in the PCB market, the software was being developed on UNIX | before wintel systems were suited to the task. | | Large numbers of objects in the applications required large amounts of | RAM, etc. | | PCs with 512MB-2GB of RAM haven't been common for very long. i hate to say it, but i am almost to the point of giving up and going back to windows for the time being, anyway. at least for some of the specialized apps. i just do not have the time or the ability at this point to develop my own anyway. besides, why re-invent the wheel? i just read a comment that *nix doesn't even have good, intuitive debugger. all there really are are wrappers for ancient command line utils. this does not seem very state of the art compared with vc++ or softice. jcm -- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message