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From: "Jonathan M. Bresler" <jmb>
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Subject: Re: ATT Unix for Windows !
To: peter@grendel.IAEhv.nl (Peter Korsten)
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 1997 07:33:29 -0700 (PDT)
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In-Reply-To: <19970825224258.55928@grendel.IAEhv.nl> from "Peter Korsten" at Aug 25, 97 10:42:58 pm
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Peter Korsten wrote:
> 
> Perhaps I can spend a week and look for all kinds of tools that
> have some, the same, or even more functionality than VC++, but in
> my case, it's cheaper to buy VC++. And it comes with manuals and
> a great online help, instead of some info files nobody but Gnu
> uses.
> 
> But well, this is only from my personal experience from a FreeBSD
> system and a Windows NT 4.0 system two metres apart.
> 
> Of course, I find MS's marketing strategy - either buying or crushing
> the competition in about _every_ field in computing - disturbing, to
> say the least. But they do make decent software. Maybe not all of it,
> but much of it.
	
	i am surprised by this, a friend of mine here, recently had to 
	learn C.  the course dictated the use of VC++.  he went thru
	hell getting VC++ to do what he wanted.  i showed him how i 
	would do it in xemacs/gcc (i am NOT xemacs skilled much less
	a wizard).  he wanted to know why he had to use VC++!

	one ancedote for what its worth.
jmb