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- From: Hugh.Fisher@anu.edu.au
- Subject: NT v Unix (was Questions about NT, Ajay Shah)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.020116.22372@newshost.anu.edu.au>
- Sender: hugh@rschp1.anu.edu.au (Hugh Fisher)
- Organization: Research School of Chemistry, ANU
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 02:01:16 GMT
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- I can understand why some of the responses to Ajay Shah were
- a little heated: Unix may have been state of the art back in
- the 70's, but since the mid 80's or so PC/Mac development
- systems blow Unix out of the water. Back in 1988 I was doing
- a GUI for a scientific project at the local university on PCs
- and we had source level debuggers, ANSI prototypes, etc.
- Then I started working on Unix systems and got to use dbx:
- like wow, man. OK, some of the best Unix systems around now
- approach (say) THINK Pascal or CodeView for responsiveness
- and ease of use, but they charge far more.
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- Microsoft _could_ learn a few tricks from Unix systems, such
- as networked graphics a la X11. Like most people, the NT
- designers probably missed the few such gems buried under
- the anachronistic crud that makes up the typical Unix box.
- Sendmail config files, nroff macros, termcaps, vi, ... if
- NT can kill these off, I'll be cheering all the way.
-
- Your flames denouncing me as a weenie incapable of using
- (or recognising) a Real Computer System should be sent to
- the e-mail address in the header.
-