home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sn.no!not-for-mail
- From: mobergru@oslonett.no (Rune Moberg)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.basic.visual.misc,comp.lang.pascal.delphi.misc,comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: "SHOULD I DUMP VISUAL BASIC?"
- Date: 8 Feb 1996 13:49:23 +0100
- Organization: CD-Player Pro author!
- Message-ID: <PpeGx0JfFqfF089yn@oslonett.no>
- References: <4e9g08$3dp@maureen.teleport.com> <4e9oji$me5@news-2.csn.net>
- <4ebko9$8tn@hasle.sn.no> <4egdqm$app@shore.shore.net> <4eiogb$cas@hasle.sn.no>
- <310CFB3E.114B@mail.inett.no> <4etkm5$n3p@newshost.cyberramp.net>
- <4f63bc$97a@news.service.uci.edu> <4f92nd$1e3i@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>
- NNTP-Posting-Host: hasle.sn.no
- Mime-Version: 1.0
- Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
- Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
-
- In article <4f92nd$1e3i@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>,
- stevez1@ibm.net (Steven R. Zuch) wrote:
- >MS has an FAQ re: VB4 distribution size, whereby they state
- >that many of the VB OCXs will be part of the next operating
- >system. Not only can MS do this and incorporate VBRUN
-
- MS (or rather Dave Cutler, I think that was his name) is working
- hard on getting NT 4.0 to run well with only 8Mb of RAM installed.
- This time he's trying to incorporate GDI into the kernel, reducing
- memory footprint and increasing speed/performance.
-
- The sizemaniac aka VB 4.0 doesn't fit into that strategy.
-
- >must nice having such monopolistic power. MS can kill
- >development tools and applications by incorporating them
- >into the operating system, just like IBM once bundled software
- >with their mainframe boxes. History repeats itself.
-
- I fail to see how that strategy can help MS sell operating systems.
-
- In case you haven't noticed, MS' selling point these days is that
- "we have all the applications", if they kill them off, developers
- are highly likely to develop for other platforms.
-
- Delphi 1.0 has features that might surface in VB5 or 6, and 2.0
- will be shipping this month...
-
- Delphi 2.0 has form inheritance, multithreading, an even more optimizing
- compiler (check their web page for details. It's awesome!) and improved
- database controls (Delphi 1.0 already beats VB4 hands down).
-
-
- --
- =\
- *=- R.Moberg, CD-Player Pro info @ http://www.sn.no/~mobergru/
- =/
-