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Date:      Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:03:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:      The Clark Family <res03db2@gte.net>
To:        j mckitrick <jcm@freebsd-uk.eu.org>
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday!
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008221251010.4505-100000@orthanc.dsl.gtei.net>
In-Reply-To: <20000821144137.D13975@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>

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The vendor of our (niche market) PCB software were in the process of going
from HP-UX to windows. But they were using NuTcracker to leverage their
existing code.

Its funny to see a "ported" app running in an Xterminal emulator on NT.

As per the debugger:

Not all UNIX is open source or GPL. I would expect to find that
fancier debugging tools are available, in commercial toolsets on UNIX.

I don't have any direct experience, but my co-workers seemed to like the
programming tools on HP-UX. (An add on package.)

[RC]

 On Mon, 21 Aug 2000, j mckitrick wrote:

> 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
> -- 
> 



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