From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Feb 2 15: 6:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mail2.rdc1.il.home.com (mail2.rdc1.il.home.com [24.2.1.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D13F37B491 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 15:06:20 -0800 (PST) Received: from marx.marvic.chum ([24.17.229.11]) by mail2.rdc1.il.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.00 201-229-121) with ESMTP id <20010202230618.ZNAT2476.mail2.rdc1.il.home.com@marx.marvic.chum> for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 15:06:18 -0800 Received: (from vcardona@localhost) by marx.marvic.chum (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) id RAA02929 for freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 17:10:15 -0600 Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 17:10:15 -0600 From: "Victor R. Cardona" To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: software development tools - microsoft and unix Message-ID: <20010202171015.A2926@home.com> Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20010201183650.C76922@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <200102012239.PAA17765@usr08.primenet.com> <20010202134033.A91283@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20010202134033.A91283@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org>; from jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org on Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 01:40:33PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 01:40:33PM +0000, j mckitrick wrote: > | A secondary problem with Windows, which is _not_ common to all > | versions (which is why many shops choose to develope on NT), is > | that it is really not a true protected mode OS. Because of this, > > Now that win2k is becoming established, and appears to be quite robust, what > does this mean for the future of professional programming? It certainly > makes the environment much more attractive to programmers who need that kind > of stability. I've heard the TCP/IP performance is vastly improved as well. Yeah, the network performance is improved. That is if you call dropping network connections improvement. -- Victor R. Cardona GnuPG Key fingerprint = 62B1 7995 A830 432C 74E8 1337 EDDB E682 3C76 7404 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message