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Christopher, why do you  use "OS/2> " as a quote string? I  don't
think  it's  a good idea to use quote strings which are  six  (!)
characters long. It's an utterly useless waste of bandwidth,  and
it  considerably  lowers  the  signal  to  noise  ratio  of  your
postings, as those nonsense strings are 100% noise. Plus, if many
people developed such habits, line lengths would rapidly approach
infinity after being quoted for a few times...

In <9212222830@ritz.mordor.com> ritz@ritz.mordor.com (Christopher Mauritz) writes:

>Jan T. Kim (aeg03@rrz.uni-koeln.de) wrote:

>OS/2> Windows NoThanx etc. are not among them. Regarding Macs,  if  you
>OS/2> say  their  OS  is  smooth you must have taken a very superficial
>OS/2> look at it. I agree, the OS "looks and feels"  rather  neat,  but
>OS/2> beyond that surface there are nightmares and loads of weird stuff
>OS/2> buried. Beware.

>More than TOS???  Hehe, let's get some perspective here.  MacOS is
>a dream compared to the daggers you'll find hidden all over TOS.

A dream, maybe. A nightmare, to be more precise. At least, that's
what  I call an OS which doesn't provide anything like a function
to save the desktop, but instead insists on presenting  you  with
the  mess  you  left  last  time.  I  don't  want an OS that will
suddenly ask me to insert a disk which  I  have  forgotten  about
since  long.  I hate to be constantly worried about large amounts
of data that may not yet have been written to disks and  will  be
lost  should the system hang. On a more "expert" level, the weird
shuffling about and purging the Mac does with  its  resources  is
utterly  brain-damaged,  and  actually  even worse than a garbage
collection on a C64. And so on and so on... this much may suffice
for now.

>OS/2> Also, remember that there are a lot of  different  things  pepole
>OS/2> may  want to do with their computer. If someone just wants to run
>OS/2> a word processor, a spreadsheet and a graphics program, he can do
>OS/2> that on a PC running Windows or on a Mac, despite all the horrors
>OS/2> buried in them. Even more, a Mac or PC may actually suit  such  a
>OS/2> person's  need  better  than an Atari. But if someone wants to do
>OS/2> some programming too, he will probably be much better off with an
>OS/2> Atari.

>And use what development tools?

For me, GFA basic has worked well until  now.  Other  than  that,
there's Pure C, Pure pascal, gcc, g++...

Greetinx, Jan

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