Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!usc!apple!mips!sjsca4!poffen From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Windows Programming Message-ID: <1990Jun13.154100.14607@sj.ate.slb.com> Date: 13 Jun 90 15:41:00 GMT References: <1990Jun11.110735.13581@usenet@kadsma> <1990Jun12.010850.17716@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <22139@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <22165@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger) Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, San Jose, CA. Lines: 34 In article nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu writes: >In article <22165@boulder.Colorado.EDU> wallwey@snoopy.Colorado.EDU (WALLWEY DEAN WILLIAM) writes: > > You did make one good point, and that was that MicroSoft (and > programmers for that matter) would benifit from the increased > amount Windows code and Programms floating around if more people > had access (afford) to write Windows programs. Of course the same > could be said of MicroSoft C. Why not give that away free, and > have more users be able to write DOS and OS/2 programs? Because > people will buy it if they have to! > >Many, many machines come bundled with DOS. Therefore, Microsoft has >little to gain from more DOS programs. Perhaps the reason OS/2 is a flop >is precisely because there are not enough free programs for it. > >In other words, I agree with you. The way to sell an OS is to give away >the programming tools for it. > >-- >--russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Russ.Nelson@$315.268.6667 >Violence never solves problems, it just changes them into more subtle problems Unfortunately even the traditional OS's may be changing. Sunos (BSD unix) used to include a C compiler with the OS. While it is still bundled with the latest release (4.1), it is the same old piece of crap compiler they have always had. It is non-ANSI compliant. If you want a REAL C compiler, now you have to pay for it separately. Russ Poffenberger DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com Schlumberger Technologies UUCP: {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!poffen 1601 Technology Drive CIS: 72401,276 San Jose, Ca. 95110 (408)437-5254