Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!batcomputer!cornell!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!rh2y+ From: rh2y+@andrew.cmu.edu (Russell E. Hoffman, II) Newsgroups: comp.os.os9 Subject: Re: OS9 Sourcebook/Catalog Message-ID: Date: 18 Apr 91 21:17:31 GMT References: , <4@mondas.UUCP> Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 40 In-Reply-To: <4@mondas.UUCP> Excerpts From Captions of netnews.comp.os.os9: 17-Apr-91 Re: OS9 Sourcebook/Catalog bdw@mondas.UUCP (810) > Personally, I think that there are good things coming out on the horizon. >OS-9 is showing signs of evolving into an everyday use OS, slowly but surely. I agree with you wholeheartedly! After re-reading my last post, I realized I hadn't said what I meant very clearly. What I really meant by that was that what with all the great development products and newcomers to OSK (as well as all the old-timers already there :-), it's reasonable to expect that some very exciting things should be happening soon in the realm of 'personal' applications and software useful to those in the education racket (like myself at this point). I apologize for any confusion... I'm certainly not about to start deriding OS9; I've been using it since I was 14 years old! I'm anticipating an explosion (ok, a minor outpouring) of new software that consists of more than the usual file utilities, text editors, filters, and so on ("tools used to sharpen tools," as Mr. Knudsen put it on another bulletin board). OS9 continues to be more and more refined, and at this point (IMHO) powerful applications are just DYING to be written. After all, would you rather write an application under OS9 or MS-DOS? By far, OS9 provides the better programming environment. Most successful MS-DOS programs I've seen consist mostly of "hacks" (e.g. direct screen writes, direct control of serial ports, etc..) whereby the OS is completely circumvented. I'd much rather program WITH the OS than AGAINST it. Wouldn't you? Sure. Hopefully I've clarified myself. Didn't mean it to sound the way it must've looked. Too much Mountain Dew fogs the brain ;-) >Brian D. Wright - Seattle, WA >Internet: ...eskimo.celestial.com!bdw@mondas.UUCP >FidoNET: Brian Wright @ 1:343/69 >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >The 68000 makers renamed SEX to EXT. So 68K programmers can't have SEX >any more, but at least they can PEA on the stack! Cheers, Russell Hoffman rh2y+@andrew.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon Univ