From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 23 7:31:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 68B4A37B422 for ; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 07:31:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3NEQgn25249; Mon, 23 Apr 2001 10:26:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200104231426.f3NEQgn25249@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Mike Meyer Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: OT: When MS wrote good software (Was: the AMD factor in FreeBSD) In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 22 Apr 2001 23:23:53 CDT." <15075.44633.654036.773169@guru.mired.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2001 10:26:41 -0400 From: "~/.signature" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG mike mentioned, > ~/.signature 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