Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 10:26:41 -0400 From: "~/.signature" <hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu> To: Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: When MS wrote good software (Was: the AMD factor in FreeBSD) Message-ID: <200104231426.f3NEQgn25249@fac13.ds.psu.edu> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 22 Apr 2001 23:23:53 CDT." <15075.44633.654036.773169@guru.mired.org>
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mike mentioned, > ~/.signature <hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu> types: > > vincent vocalized, > > hawk, old enough to remember when microsoft wrote good software . . . > I quit using MS software because their z80 assembler was garbage. > I've still got a copy of the reviews of the first MS BASIC interpreter > (in storage, unfortunately). While it didn't suck, I'd be hard pressed > to say that the review called it "good software." Not necessarily all of it, but . . . > If MS ever wrote good software, I never encountered it. For a while, > they purchased language processors from other companies and sold > those. One of those may have qualified as "good software." Word 3.0 and 4.0 come to minde, and, compared to its competition, 1.0. 5.1 wasn't up to the standards of the other, but it still beat most of what preceded and followed it (except LyX :) Mbasic 5 was solid, and *documented*. You could actually pick up the manual and figure out how to use the commnand--it even had an example. hawk -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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