<So that’s sort of my rant on that> Ref my rant on the free thread..
Happy to see some basic Juha-intellectual honesty, and he has a point on developer enviroment,
although Watcom and Quarterdeck, Pharlap was much greater and pregnant than the lousy
joke of Visual Basics.
Funny stuff, I have been pestering one Visual basic buddy on those tools, and some time
ago he called to tell me that the XP-NET version makes it possible to monitor even two areas
in memory...wow.... just like in medieval times...
One more devolution to when memory space was open to both debuggers and developers,
handled by a safe memory model operating system. (Phar Lap as well as Amiga, not to forget
babylonian,claytable VMS)
Without starting WInDumb ontop of another Operating System like SoftICE, Intel was never
allowed to do that.
Although TI is famously crappy for their developer enviroment, it is nothing like the
closed, closewelded hood of Visual WinDoze and Suddenly UnTracableCrash...
Ilmarinen
Funny thing, Intel has fought this stupidity for years, and now they have to step down
because of the very same reasons, but maybe Ballmer can take the blame for that,
publicly cangarooing around the scene head down, for unpredictable reasons?? |
