From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Aug 22 13: 5:46 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from smtppop3.gte.net (smtppop3pub.gte.net [206.46.170.22]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E59C37B440 for ; Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:05:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from evrtwa1-ar4-146-005.dsl.gtei.net (evrtwa1-ar4-146-005.dsl.gtei.net [4.34.146.5]) by smtppop3.gte.net with ESMTP ; id OAA14674418 Tue, 22 Aug 2000 14:59:58 -0500 (CDT) Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2000 13:03:50 -0700 (PDT) From: The Clark Family X-Sender: res03db2@orthanc.dsl.gtei.net To: j mckitrick Cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! In-Reply-To: <20000821144137.D13975@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 > -- > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message