Justin Walsh wrote:
I'm old fashion, believing that True Users are End Users.
Business/nonBusiness people (dotCom/dotOrg, or neither).
The Ideal model I use is the mobile phone: Who really cares what
drives it, as long s it works.
I have two Integrated Development Environments, IDE's:
1. PDC VIP nc; Visual Prolog non commercial and,
2. Cincom VWnc; VisualWorks non commercial.
The first is primarily Declarative (non procedural leaning toward
procedural). The mindset is radical close.
The second primarily Procedural (non Declarative leaning toward
declarative). The mindset is radical open.
I am stuck with a choice of which one to choose. Neither is making
it easier for me.
Background:
Neither actually requires an Operating System at all, the earlier
Borland and Digitalk (mid to late 80's) releases ran well on early DOS.
From my experience both could have run just as well (if not better) on
64k bit CP/M.
Since they are both true OO IDE's and can perform everything a
modern computer should, then I don't see the OS as doing any more than
provide what you describe so well in you opening statement in
Linuxbios.org:
Reinout Heek wrote:
The most minimal Linux I heard of is the one being adapted to run
instead of the bios (requires reflashing your bios)
http://www.linuxbios.org/
Will boot in seconds
In fact once my StV IDE has booted (DOS3.10) I can even delete c:\dos
and the command.com.
Both Cincom and PDC (owners of the above tools) have hitched their
respective wagons to either Windows or Linux or both and End Users are
being led a merry techno-political dance.; no insult intended.
They now service only their Primary Users, who are nearly all
committed to either Linux or Windows; one and all Programmers
Secondary or End User are left wondering whether years of development
are going to end up as junk.
I am now faced with all the uncertainty which a technical civil war
i.e open v Close or as in Gullivers Travels Big-enders v
Small-enders, presents.
If there is anybody (with an open/closed mind), who can speak with me
on the matter (soberly and Rationally), then:
I would be delighted to hear from him/her,them.
Regards
Justin
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Dude, have you even played with the new tech, its all designed to be
backwards compatible and the linux community are doing what the can to
support windows apps and dos apps (Wine, DosBox, even got it booting
win2k), can you say the same for MS? Open source is becoming the way, it
makes it much easier to maintain/fix machines, why just the other day I
had issues with my mail server and the pam_mysql module, so I downloaded
the source, found the issue, fixed it and I was back in musniess within
a couple of hours, normally you would have to request a patch from the
developers, and who knows how long it would take, and if they would even
listen to you. Also, you say you have borland stuff from the 80s, go get
youself a copy of Kylix and Delphi, then you can develop for both
operating systems at once and your problem goes away.
Working in a computer shop I once encountered a guy running Dos and he
wanted to upgrade but refused to use windows, we had to tell hit to go
away because if your running dos you have to be a complete idiot.
LinuxBios is designed to overcome bios limitations, the motherboard
manufactures are jumping at the oppotunity to do this as it saves them
time and money developing a bios for every MB that they produce, and if
they have problems, they contact the community.
In fact once my StV IDE has booted (DOS3.10) I can even delete c:\dos
and the command.com.
Once linux has booted you can even delete everything, even though it is
a stupid idea, you can ever partition the hdd and format without
rebooting, which you cant do from dos. You are using dos as your
operating system/launcher here, thats all the LinuxBios is, just
smaller, smarter and much faster, you can make it boot whatever you
want, even probarbly could make it launch dosbox and your dos dev
environment.
Anyhow, feel free to flame me, this is just my opinion.
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