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Article: 13935 of comp.protocols.kermit.misc
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From: colive@technologEase.com (Chris Olive)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.protocols.kermit.misc
Subject: Re: totally OT: terminal emulators
Date: 5 Dec 2002 11:13:32 -0800
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LESLIE@JRLVAX.HOUSTON.RR.COM (Jerry Leslie) wrote in message news:<yUwH9.108880$Kj1.4484915@twister.austin.rr.com>...
> Chris Olive (colive@technologEase.com) wrote:
> :
> : Your review here and FdC's review and link were both enlightening. I
> : understand Frank's comment that PuTTY does 10% of what Kermit does
> : (esp. after looking over the comparision link he handed out.) But
> : that 10% is all I need. Kermit -- pardon the comparision -- is like
> : having all the features of MS Word when all I need to do is type
> : memos. (The analogy totally breaks down though in that I suspect all
> : of Kermit's features actually WORK, whereas I wouldn't place a $2 bet
> : on any piece of Microsoft pretendware.)
> :
> Search the archived postings of the comp.os.ms-windows.apps.word-proc
> newsgroup for "master document".
>
> These articles are written by the former Project Manager of Excel,
> Joel Spolsky, and may explain why Microsoft software is bloated and
> buggy:
>
>
> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000020.html
> Joel on Software - Strategy Letter IV: Bloatware and the 80/20 Myth
>
> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
> Joel on Software - Things You Should Never Do, Part I
>
>
Well, any tangents from these links above probably deserve a new
thread, but Joel baby must be running in-house versions, gratis, of MS
Windoze because all Windows versions I have EVER used were shot so
full of memory leak problems, I've ALWAYS had to give my Windoze boxes
a good swift kick in the pants (ie. reboot) to clean up memory
leak/(mis)management problems, sometimes DAILY. The architecting of
Windows ON PAPER may seem that it handles memory as stated in his
articles, but I don't care what he says: it manages memory very
poorly.
Anyway, it's off-topic from this thread (which was called OT, but
wasn't!) so I digress, not to mention I shouldn't be wasting time
convincing others what is so obvious to most everyone thats even
remotely familiar with a robust OS with real MM. There were other
laughable comments that he made.
The second link however (unrelated to Windows directly), I had to
agree with, regretably. Fredrick Brooks would be proud to claim it as
a corollary...
Chris
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