Date: Sat, 1 Dec 2001 11:05:54 -0800 From: Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org> To: Mark Yeck <y3k@gti.net> Cc: anthony@freebie.atkielski.com, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Feeding the Troll (Was: freebsd as a desktop ?) Message-ID: <20011201110554.A27930@FreeBSD.org> In-Reply-To: <4237.208.216.115.112.1007183317.squirrel@y3k.shacknet.nu>; from y3k@gti.net on Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 12:08:37AM -0500 References: <020c01c178a1$bea114e0$0a00000a@atkielski.com> <4237.208.216.115.112.1007183317.squirrel@y3k.shacknet.nu>
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> > I disagree. All else being equal, a purpose-built system is always > > superior to a generalized system. > > This is not always true. A popular topic in engineering circles these days > is Design Reuse. There are many advantages to modify a proven system to meet > the requirements of a similar task, or using proven elements of an existing > system in a new system, over designing a purpose built system completely > from scratch. It's sort of a moot point because nt is most definitely NOT "designed from the ground up to be a windowing system". It was intended to be ms's new wonder VMS. After windows had reached some degree of success, ms decided to bring windows and nt together. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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