Re: Windows As A Development Workstation (was PDM/SEU) -- RPG400-L

I agree that no one should be using Win9x versus NT on 
a development machine, unless their priority is to get 
their games running.  The only Win9x here is on an occasional 
laptop.  The only application I have a lot of problem with 
is MS Word for Windows 95 version 7.0.  That seems to be 
the program most incompatible with Windows.  Dies frequently.  
I am supposed to be upgraded to Office 2000 sometime this week.




john.taylor@telusplanet.net on 05/30/2000 11:35:16 AM
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For those of you who have expressed your frustration with the reliability of
Windows,  I'd like to suggest that you give W2K Pro (NT 5.0) a try. Though I
have only been running it for a few weeks, I have been very impressed with
it's stability. While individual applications still crash with the same
frequency as before, none of them has brought down the OS yet.

If you're using Win9x on your development machine, then you're kind of
asking for problems. At the very least, you should be running NT4 with a
recent service pack.

Regards,

John Taylor
Canada

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From: <Jon.Paris@hal.it>
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Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 08:02
Subject: Re: PDM/SEU


>
>
>  >> SEU is has *NOT* outlived its usefulness.
>
> Perhaps I should have said "In my opinion ......" which it is.  No matter
how
> good, bad, or indifferent Windoze is, the productivity gains from using a
PC
> based tool like Code/400 outweigh it.  I am no fan of MS products as
anyone who
> knows me will attest and I hope that Code will be available for other
platforms
> in the future.  Windoze is reality - I don't have to like it but I fought
> against it for many years but marketing hype clearly beat out function and
> common sense.  That is reality - I have had to learn to accept it.
>
> Regardless of my opinion or yours - it is a simple fact of life that as
far as
> IBM is concerned SEU is dead.  They have made their last enhancement to
the tool
> in V4R2 which was to give those of you who wanted to remain in the green
screen
> world the opportunity to add your own functions to the editor.  No matter
how
> much you hate PCs, Billy Boy, etc. it won't change that.
>
> Personally I'm happy - even with regular Windoze crashes I'm personally
more
> productive with Code than with SEU/SDA/etc.  You can hear the screams for
miles
> on those occasions when I have to use SEU.
>
>  >> much less have an outrageously expensive and not much more useful
product
> like Code/400 installed on each of these PC's
>
> The expensive part IBM are taking care of.  See the V4R5 announce and
watch for
> other announcements.  "not much more useful" - I'm sorry but to me that
just
> tells me you have no idea what the product can do.
>
>
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