RE: Windows As A Development Workstation (was PDM/SEU)

["John Taylor" <john.taylor@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Paul,

With all due respect, I think it's unfair of you to compare Windows to
*real* operating systems like OS/400, VMS, AIX etc. My copy of W2K cost less
than $500, OS/400 cost us $50,000. I think it's reasonable to expect more
from the latter.

If you want to make a valid comparison, then compare it with DOS, OS/2, Mac,
and now Linux. I don't know about you, but I've used all four of them and
had them lock up to the point that a reboot was required.

In any event, I'm not interested in an OS debate. I use the best tool for
the job and avoid getting religious about it. My original point was that if
you are avoiding the move to a PC based editor simply because of the
unreliability of Windows, you don't have to let that stop you anymore.


Regards,

John Taylor
Canada


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com [mailto:owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com]On
> Behalf Of Paul Cunnane
> Sent: Wednesday, May 31, 2000 10:23 AM
> To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
> Subject: Re: Windows As A Development Workstation (was PDM/SEU)
>
>
>      I think the point of the previous message (at least, the way I read
>      it) is this:  Windows has been around, in one form or another, since
>      the early nineties.  Now, a decade later, they seem to have finally
>      come up with a version that can handle an application
> crashing without
>      taking down the whole OS with it.
>
>      Well, whoop-de-doo.  That's a feature that *real* operating systems
>      have had since version 1.0.  It's incredible that it should be
>      considered a selling point.
>
>      --
>      Paul
>
>
> ______________________________ Reply Separator
> _________________________________
> Subject: Re: Windows As A Development Workstation (was  PDM/SEU)
> Author:  "John Taylor" <john.taylor@telusplanet.net> at INTERNET
> Date:    30-05-00 12:54 pm
>
>
>
> > At 09:29 AM 5/30/00 -0600, you wrote:
> >
> > >...................... While individual applications still
> crash with the
> same
> > >frequency as before, none of them has brought down the OS yet.
> > >
> > >Regards,
> > >
> > >John Taylor
> > >Canada
> > >
> > >Isn't this a giant step for humankind?
> >
> > EndreE
>
> You know, I really hate being placed in the position of having to come to
> the defense of an MS product, but that was a cheap shot that has no merit.
>
> Who among us has not seen a poorly written application on the AS/400? I
> couldn't begin to count the number of times that I've seen an unhandled
> exception message caused by some RPG programmer who was to lazy
> to code an
> error handler. The saving grace was that OS/400 isolated the program and
> allowed it to be brought down without affecting any other jobs on the
> system. Do you actually expect OS/400 to prevent an application
> program from
> crashing? Of course not. So why do you expect it from Windows, or
> *nix or,
> (insert your favourite OS here)?
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