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From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: Object-oriented what?  (was: Future of FreeBSD)
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Sender: peter@nmti.com (peter da silva)
Organization: Network/development platform support, NMTI
References: <DC6vJ3.L53@news.central.com> <3v9svg$hv1@vodka.intele.net> <3vlv5m$aii@park.uvsc.edu>
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 1995 19:54:28 GMT
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In article <3vlv5m$aii@park.uvsc.edu>,
Terry Lambert  <terry@cs.weber.edu> wrote:
> Because of the increased difficulty of programming in a UNIX
> environment -- or rather, the different expertise required -- the
> UNIX market is not commodity with regard to software, and thus
> the prices are set at what the market will bear instead of on
> parity with the competition.

You watch how you phrase that.

The UNIX environment is orders of magnitude easier to *program* in than DOS
or NT or the Mac or any of those little bitty-box PC systems.

> How many terminal emulation packages do you know about on UNIX?

I wrote one. It's cool: it reads vt100 codes on stdin and writes your terminal
codes to stdout. You can stick it on the output of any application that expects
a vt100 and it runs it on your terminal.

The toughest part was figuring out what a real vt100 did on undocumented cases.
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