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- From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
- Subject: Re: Can someone at IBM please explain why developers should develop for OS/2?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.063704.18222@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
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- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
- References: <1992Jul28.021436.2865@hellgate.utah.edu>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 06:37:04 GMT
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- brian%jensen.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Brian Sturgill) writes:
- :
- :
- : Below is a response to two different individuals from IBM.
- : I wish to thank them both for responding to my original post.
- : [ stuff deleted]
- : > - You say that we should have made available, from day 1, a development
- : > environment "WITH ALL THE PROGRAMMING DOCS (at least on-line), and
- : > the hard copies of docs AT COST."
- : > Correct me if I've misunderstood you, but the programming docs are
- : > provided (on-line) with the toolkit (part of the WorkSet). Look in
- : > your toolkit folder, under "Toolkit information". -tim
- : What I'm talking about is the overview manuals. The reference
- : manuals are there, but the other things are not.
- : Further the help system makes it very hard to print things out, it's
- : more or less the whole huge document, or a "page" at a time.
-
- What I'd give to Tech manuals ! (not a lot of money :-)) I bought the Redbooks
- yesterday and was a little dissapointed - what I got were the overview manuals,
- when what I really wanted were the tech refs - oh well. Can't winge, since
- they'll probably be usefull at some stage in the future.
-
- You are right though - a decent C++ developement system IS necessary, since
- a lot of people have put a lot of time into creating reusable objects to save
- themselves and others time during the developement phase - but can't use them
- because there is no decent C++ compiler.
-
- As a small time developer/consultant and big time student, I find the costs
- involved in the OS/compiler debate prohibitive. As a student, I want to use
- OS/2 as a system which gives comparable performance and is reasonably
- compatible with the UNIX environments I use here at Uni. As a developer
- I would like to create applications for the various jobs I'm working in
- in a superior environment, like OS2. Unfortunatly it looks like I'll have to
- wait until Borland release BC++ 4.0.
-
- Something I noticed out here in Australia was that the MS developement
- conference cost $400 and included 3 CD-ROMs full of stuff. From what I here
- this was good value. I recently recieved an invitation to the OS2 developers
- conference. Base cost ~$800 and you get a few bits and peices for it
- (a current release copy of OS/2 2.x and some other goodies). Nowehere near
- as much as MS offered.
-
-
- --
- Tom J Parry.
- Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
-