From owner-freebsd-advocacy Wed Jun 10 19:01:30 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA17604 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 19:01:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA17559; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 19:01:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@n4hhe.ampr.org) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt2-197.HiWAAY.net [208.147.148.197]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.8/8.8.6) with ESMTP id VAA04868; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 21:01:04 -0500 (CDT) Received: from n4hhe.ampr.org (localhost.ampr.org [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA22523; Wed, 10 Jun 1998 20:43:31 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@n4hhe.ampr.org) Message-Id: <199806110143.UAA22523@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: Wes Peters cc: chat@FreeBSD.ORG, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Is Linux leaving FreeBSD behind? In-reply-to: Message from Wes Peters of "Wed, 10 Jun 1998 14:34:34 MDT." <357EEDDA.4787F98A@softweyr.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 20:43:30 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Wes Peters writes: > > This months cover feature in "Embedded Systems Programming" magazine > is an article about embedding Windows NT. Bleh. What a ridiculous > way to make a living. I wasn't interested so only scanned the article. Most of what I saw was very negative about using NT in an embedded application. Pointed out how many extra cost addons were needed to do all the little things one is supposed to be using an OS for. OTOH the only positive side to NT was the ability to use Microsoft's tools such as Visual Basic, Access, etc. That was a "positive"? -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message