From: okorf@netcs.com (Oliver Korfmacher) Subject: Re: Unix, Win32 & Posix subsystems [was: TeX implementations?] 30 Oct 1996 10:49:28 -0800 Sender: daemon@cygnus.com Approved: cygnus.gnu-win32@cygnus.com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <32773EE6.4E3D.cygnus.gnu-win32@netcs.com> References: <199610290633.PAA15705@bird.fu.is.saga-u.ac.jp> <9610291053.ZM27457@morgan.com> <3276DC93.4CA6@pswtech.com> Reply-To: okorf@netcs.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (WinNT; I) Original-To: "Mr. X" Original-CC: gnu-win32@cygnus.com Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32@cygnus.com Mr. X > .. > IMHO, Microsoft designers never really grasped the concepts of > network transparency and policy-neutrality. Others have said they > understood them and rejected them on marketing grounds. The mish-mosh > of display primitives and fundamentals such as container objects in > the MFC is merely an example. The internals appear to be in very much > worse shape. Talking about that, i recall that MS long times ago gave the sources of NT to universities and schools?! Anybody knows if this is true? For NT 1.0 or 4.0? -- Gruesse, Oliver Korfmacher (okorf@netcs.com, whois OK11 URL: http://www.netcs.com/PEOPLE/okorf.html) - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request@cygnus.com" with one line of text: "help".