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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!inferno.mpx.com.au!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!news.fsu.edu!gold!davis From: davis@gold (Douglass E. Davis) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc Subject: Re: Netbsd and that other operating system Date: 9 May 1996 17:20:24 GMT Organization: Florida State University Lines: 26 Message-ID: <4mt9go$24d@news.fsu.edu> References: <4mjmhd$lq3@newsource.ihug.co.nz> <4mssh4$ckr@rtnews.rto.dec.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: gold.acns.fsu.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Robert L. Urban (urban@nasaxp.rto.dec.com) wrote: : I have often thought about this subject... : I imagine with WinBlows95 (aka Lose95), Microsludge has created an operating : system that is approaching the complexity of Unix, but when you combine : configuring the kernel, X11, configuring the various subsystems, : managment in general (in a transparent way), and so on, I suspect the level of : complexity is too high. Who knows... maybe there is a opportunity : here. On the other hand, don't you think that all the major unix : vendors have been thinking about this problem? (I can't speak for Digital, : that's not my department :-)) How true. I find it easier to program on a UNIX workstation than to program Win95. I have no problems with making an operating system easier to use, but the easier to use it gets, the harder it gets on programmers. Have you tried Windows programming? You can't even make a program that says "Hello world" without a bunch of windows stuff you have to deal with. Windows was not made to make it easier on programmers. I was trying to program something in Windows just the other day that did some simple text processing, but it's not even worth it. What they need is a simple command line interface that can be built on. For instance, I could run a plain c++ program if I wanted to, but then I could build windows and stuff into it later as necessary.