Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: OO debuggers
Message-ID: <1988Sep13.163824.1096@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <36300007@pyr1.cs.ucl.ac.uk> <10@argosy.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 88 16:38:24 GMT

In article <10@argosy.UUCP> becher@zaphod.UUCP (Jonathan D. Becher) writes:
>... They all seem to be stuck in the Linton dbx mold --
>i.e. dumb terminal textual rather than multiple window graphical...

Outside the PC market, which is still struggling to escape from BASIC and
assembler, the market for something that can run on an ASCII terminal is
an order of magnitude larger than the market for something that demands 
graphics.  There are still an awful lot of plain ASCII terminals in the
world, like it or not.

Mind you, the usual run of ASCII CRT terminals can do a lot more than the
hardcopy-terminal model that most of the old debuggers use.
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