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brian%jensen.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Brian Sturgill) writes:
: 
: 
: Below is a response to two different individuals from IBM.
: I wish to thank them both for responding to my original post.
: [ stuff deleted]
: >  - You say that we should have made available, from day 1, a development
: >    environment "WITH ALL THE PROGRAMMING DOCS (at least on-line), and
: >    the hard copies of docs AT COST."
: >      Correct me if I've misunderstood you, but the programming docs are
: >      provided (on-line) with the toolkit (part of the WorkSet).  Look in
: >      your toolkit folder, under "Toolkit information".    -tim
: What I'm talking about is the overview manuals.  The reference
: manuals are there, but the other things are not.
: Further the help system makes it very hard to print things out, it's
: more or less the whole huge document, or a "page" at a time.

What I'd give to Tech manuals ! (not a lot of money :-)) I bought the Redbooks
yesterday and was a little dissapointed - what I got were the overview manuals,
when what I really wanted were the tech refs - oh well. Can't winge, since 
they'll probably be usefull at some stage in the future.

You are right though - a decent C++ developement system IS necessary, since
a lot of people have put a lot of time into creating reusable objects to save
themselves and others time during the developement phase - but can't use them
because there is no decent C++ compiler.

As a small time developer/consultant and big time student, I find the costs 
involved in the OS/compiler debate prohibitive. As a student, I want to use
OS/2 as a system which gives comparable performance and is reasonably 
compatible with the UNIX environments I use here at Uni. As a developer
I would like to create applications for the various jobs I'm working in
in a superior environment, like OS2. Unfortunatly it looks like I'll have to
wait until Borland release BC++ 4.0.

Something I noticed out here in Australia was that the MS developement 
conference cost $400 and included 3 CD-ROMs full of stuff. From what I here 
this was good value. I recently recieved an invitation to the OS2 developers
conference. Base cost ~$800 and you get a few bits and peices for it
(a current release copy of OS/2 2.x and some other goodies). Nowehere near
as much as MS offered.


-- 
Tom J Parry.
Your reality is a figment of my imagination.