Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/03/15/21:43:23
> Just ignore me when I act this way ... I have encountered a 1/2
> dozen problems in WFW 3.11, W95, and WNT in the last few months,
> none of which have a good workaround, and there seems to be no
> interest at MS in fixing DPMI/DOS support bugs. When the owner of
> your operating environment is hostile to you, it's probably time to
> find something else. I'm just amazed that millions of customers
> tolerate being treated this way, then buy more. In the future I'll
> try an restrain myself to "know microsoft bug, avoid MS products
> unless 100% of your environment is MS purchased". I have learned
> the very hard way to avoid any non-MS drivers in the W95
> environment...
If I may...
I have seen a lot of energy being put into OSs and environments that
are explicitly non-Microsoft: the BeBox, DJGPP, Linux. There was a
recent announcement on the Linux board about doing high-performance
computing with Linux. Point? I think there are a lot of people who
want more control over their computing environment. Did you see that
Quake by ID software uses DJGPP/CWSDMPI?
Thanks. I hope that this trend continues along it's logical path.
Marc Singer
elf AT netcom DOT com
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