Date: Thu, 09 Oct 1997 07:10:56 -0400 From: The Classiest Man Alive <ksmm@cybercom.net> To: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Digital, Intel, Silicon Graphics (fwd) Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19971009071056.0096aeb0@cybercom.net> In-Reply-To: <19971009145541.15494@lemis.com> References: <199710090449.WAA01811@obie.softweyr.ml.org> <199710081200.VAA04024@word.smith.net.au> <199710081200.IAA17975@hda.hda.com> <199710090449.WAA01811@obie.softweyr.ml.org>
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At 02:55 PM 10/9/97 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >>> Gates waved his hand a few days ago and announced that business >>> users should now switch to NT, and that home computers should follow >>> after W98. >> >> Apparently you didn't notice when he said the same thing in 1995. >> Remember? Windows 95 is the operating system for homes, Windows NT is >> the operating system for businesses of all sizes. The stated purpose of >> the Win95 branding system requiring that your application also run on NT >> was to ascertain a large number of 32-bit applications compatible with >> NT, even though the vendors were intentionally making Win95 >> applications. Amazing how little Win developers really know about their >> own bread-and-butter. > >Does that surprise you? If they understood the situation, they >wouldn't be there. This doesn't strike me as odd. I would think application vendors would be happy to do the little additional work that it would take to open themselves up the NT market. It's a lot easier than writing portable UNIX applications with disparate development environments. K.S. PS -- Does anybody know of any good integrated development environments on FreeBSD?
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