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- From: drm@esl.com (Don McGregor)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy
- Subject: Re: End of NeXT(It's only the beginning...)
- Message-ID: <1789@esl.ESL.COM>
- Date: 2 Jan 93 18:27:58 GMT
- References: <1993Jan02.064531.21619@microsoft.com>
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- In article <1993Jan02.064531.21619@microsoft.com> edwardj@microsoft.com
- (Edward Jung) writes:
- > vhs@rhein-main.de writes:
- > >> again, base OS services are not that interesting any more.
- > > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
- > >Then why do you cite nothing but base OS services as positive
- > >points for NT?
-
- The problem plaguing the software industry today is getting applications
- written in reasonable time with reasonable use of programmer resources.
- OSs can help that some (protected VM and multitasking, so you don't have
- to reboot every compile-link-run cycle, for example.) But once you have a
- reasonable OS you can't continue to get order of magnitude increases in
- programmer productivity by getting more technically sophisticated OSs. To
- do that you need something like appkit and IB.
-
- One of Windows' problems (That edward is probably too diplomatic to point
- out here) is that it doesn't have a reasonable OS yet. NT looks like it
- provides that. Once NT is in place they can use that as a base to build
- the really interesting stuff, their appkit equivalent. Well, interesting
- to us anyway, since we've had a reasonable OS for a while and take the OS
- portion for granted. But you aren't going to write a GUI application 10X
- faster because you write it on top of Mach instead of NT. Vapor caveats
- not included.
-
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