Re: Application Chauvinism

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From: Shaw Terwilliger
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1995 00:00

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Sean Werkema (stw113@psu.edu) was babbling about:
> Much as I hate to respond to a cross-post, I agree.  This has always been a 
> pet-peeve of mine.  When this industry started out, we could write virtually 
> anything we knew how to code.  These days a certain Mr. Gates is planning to 
> tell us that we can't code anything at all unless it runs in Windows...

> That ain't right.

> So, to do my part, I will continue (as I have in the past) to boycott MS Win.  
> I won't code for it whenever humanly possible, much as I may be depriving 
> users of my software.  I hope that other programmers out there will strongly 
> consider doing likewise, at least until Gates acknowledges that there IS 
> something else out there besides Windows.

> And, until that date, I'm doing DOS and Linux.

	And as much as I hate to follow-up to cross-posted follow-ups, I 
agree.  I do have a job where I do alot of windows programming, but it is the
kind of application that requires Windows compatability (with other Windoze
programs).  I absolutely refuse to use Winblows here at home.  On a 386 SX
25 MHz, it's just too damned slow.  I can use Novell Dos 7 and run programs
as I wish (Novell Dos 7 has a Multi-tasking program shipped with), without
a slow user-unfriendly interface.
	Just because I don't have a 120 MHZ Pentium at home (I do at work)
shouldn't mean that I can't run a simple word processor.

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From: sterwill@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Shaw Terwilliger)
Subject: Re: Application Chauvinism
Date: 1995/06/17
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