From: elf AT netcom DOT com (Marc Singer)
Message-Id: <199603160235.SAA28201@netcom6.netcom.com>
Subject: Re: CWS flames
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (DJGPP List Alias)
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1996 18:35:37 -0800 (PST)
Cc: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu
In-Reply-To: <314475c3.sandmann@clio.rice.edu> from "Charles Sandmann" at Mar 11, 96 12:49:39 pm
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> 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