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From: karl@ficc.ferranti.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: MS has NO free support for new SDK
Keywords: SDK Windows
Message-ID: <-3A6Y0B@xds2.ferranti.com>
Date: 8 Oct 90 19:04:28 GMT
References: <37745@ut-emx.uucp> <1990Sep28.180704.17439@wrl.dec.com> <1990Oct1.164153.11563@sj.ate.slb.com> <1990Oct2.171123.4377@cbnewsc.att.com>
Reply-To: karl@ficc.ferranti.com (Karl Lehenbauer)
Organization: Ferranti International Controls Corporation
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In article <1990Oct2.171123.4377@cbnewsc.att.com> peter@cbnewsc.att.com (peter.pavlovcik) writes:
>Yes, think about it. How come debuggers on other OS (for ex. dbxtool
>on UNIX) run in a window instead of requiring separate hardware?

Well, there are some good reasons for having a debugger run on a separate
display.  That way interacting with the debugger does not cause unintended
interactions with the application being debugged.

Unless the debugger did some really gross fiddling, activating the window of
a window-based debugger would deactivate the window of the application under 
test, for example.

Both are useful, certainly, but the cost of the display card and second monitor
should not be too large to swallow for any moderately hardcore developer who's
developing using the industry standard PC architecture.  (For those of you whom
Mother kind of boned, well, what did you expect?)
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