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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.kei.com!news.mathworks.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.uoregon.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!news.uh.edu!uuneo.neosoft.com!nmtigw!peter From: peter@nmti.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: Object-oriented what? (was: Future of FreeBSD) Message-ID: <id.037M1.WI4@nmti.com> 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 Lines: 25 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. -- Peter da Silva (NIC: PJD2) `-_-' Bailey Network Management 'U` 1601 Industrial Blvd. Sugar Land, TX 77478 USA +1 713 274 5180 "Har du kramat din varg idag?"