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Xref: sserve comp.os.386bsd.questions:13893 comp.os.386bsd.misc:3756 Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions,comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.indirect.com!wes From: wes@indirect.com (Barnacle Wes) Subject: Re: How UTTERLY Amazing! (Was Re: FreeBSD vs NetBSD) Message-ID: <CxuqF5.EDo@indirect.com> Sender: usenet@indirect.com (System Operator) Organization: Internet Direct, indirect.com Date: Tue, 18 Oct 1994 04:42:41 GMT References: <358o3g$p95@umd5.umd.edu> <jmonroyCx11pJ.5nv@netcom.com> <36upob$ju6@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <jmonroyCxG197.MqI@netcom.com> <37hfa2$8mt@pdq.coe.montana.edu> <jmonroyCxp4Fp.JKH@netcom.com> X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Lines: 34 Jesus Monroy Jr (jmonroy@netcom.com) wrote: : Nate Williams (nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu) wrote: : : Jesus Monroy Jr <jmonroy@netcom.com> wrote: : : > I've spoken to many people on this and they feel : : > that Chicago or Mach or maybe OS/2 might offer : : > better resources to applications programmers. : : If 'application resources' were the only criteria for running an : : operating system, we'd all be running DOS, since the application : : developement tools in DOS still blow away most of the development tools : : on all other operating systems. This is changing, but application : : development isn't the only thing out there. If your OS can't run your : : applications due to inherent limitations, then you need a different : : OS. : ; : Correction... DOS is the predominant OS for development. : BSD and other OSs are only still afloat because of relegious : loyalties and blantent bigotry.... And because not everyone in the world is a wussy *application* developer. If everyone in the world only needed their computers to run Word(tm), DOS would be (barely) enough to run every computer in the world. IMNSHO. Having recently change jobs in the Salt Lake City area, and being a rather experienced UNIX system programmer (and well-known here behind the Zion curtain ;^), I have been astonished at the number of copmanies here quietly looking for experienced UNIX weenies, and at the amazing variety of applications they are putting UNIX to. Chemical process control. Factory and warehouse automation. Medical imaging. Cable TV operations and video mixing. Truly astonishing. Wes Peters