Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 14:41:37 +0100 From: j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org> To: The Clark Family <res03db2@gte.net> Cc: David Kelly <dkelly@mail.hiwaay.net>, narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee, brooks@one-eyed-alien.net, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Gimme FreeBSD anyday! Message-ID: <20000821144137.D13975@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008201325420.1774-100000@orthanc.dsl.gtei.net>; from res03db2@gte.net on Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 01:27:57PM -0700 References: <200008151718.e7FHIbb13082@mail.hiwaay.net> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0008201325420.1774-100000@orthanc.dsl.gtei.net>
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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
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