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- From: bergstro@src.honeywell.com (Pete Bergstrom)
- Subject: Re: Where am I going wrong????
- Message-ID: <9208171741.AA09119@data.src.honeywell.com>
- To: comp.os.os2.programmer
- Posted-Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 12: 41:43 CDT
- Sender: daemon@src.honeywell.com
- Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:41:43 GMT
- Received-Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 12: 41:44 CDT
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- eldenbrg@stortek.com (Dave Eldenburg) wrote:
-
- >So, IBM says I should take all my fairly sophisticated command line
- >applications and convert then to PM. Now because of the above mentioned
- >problems (i.e. RISC not having a concept of PC screen buffer or a mouse)
- >the OS/2 that ends up on another platform does not support PM. I'm
- ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
-
- Do you actually believe this or are you just being contrary? The PC
- screen buffer discussed here is the text mode buffer that everyone
- since msdog days has directly written into.
-
- >looking at another major conversion just to get my code to run on the
- >very same operating system. And the conversion will probably be back
- >to the command line, at least till IBM get some other user interface
- >working. And IBM says this is _better_???
-
- Pure B.S. - the programming model for OS/2 & PM is higher-level than
- what you've done before. The API will be the same on other platforms
- (if they ever want to do that - expect 100 million OS/2 capable PCs
- (386/486/P5/etc) to be sold in the next 5 years and only about 1
- million workstations - why should IBM bother with 1% of the market
- unless it buys them something?)
-
- >I guess the days of programming for the least common denominator are
- >gone.
-
- Absolutely - I won't miss e/vi/edlin one bit!
-
- > It also sounds like the days of the small time programmer are
- >numbered too, at least in the IBM environment. I don't have the
-
- Work smarter, not harder. You're never going to be able to compete
- with companies who don't slog the same footpath as you. If you
- reinvent the wheel for each app, you're leaving out that extra feature
- that might get you another N buyers.
-
- Users are getting more sophisticated in their desires for interfaces -
- buy tools that support this and let you work on the good stuff - the
- reason people buy your work.
-
- >resources to support a major conversion with every hardware platform
- >change. And can you imagine the maintenance problems!?!?
-
- So buy a OS-platform independent interface and write your code to that.
- Or go client-server (check out Notes).
-
- Get away from the gate-level programming - work at a higher level and
- optimize that which needs it.
-
- BTW, this isn't meant to be a flame - please take it as constructive
- criticism. Backwards compatibility is good, but we have a *really*
- long way to go before computers are really usable.
-
- Pete
-
- Not an official statement from Honeywell - this is my opinion only.
-