OT -mostly -

From: Robert J.M. Edis <robert.edis_at_creatcomp.com>
Date: Fri Jun 18 15:01:00 1999

                OpenVMS still comes with development tools. You can write
primitive interpretive code using DCL and more sophisticated stuff with TPU.
The file management system RMS also comes free with VMS.

                Besides the above, there are many shareware or freeware
development tools that can be used with VMS. For the private user, VMS can
be free and comes with free C/C++, BASIC, Fortran, Perl and other compilers.
How does BeOS compare with that?
                 
                Blue
                PowerHouse consultant
                Rhode Island, USA

                Disclaimer:
                The opinions and ideas expressed in this message are my own
and have no relationship to my current employer, Initial Technical Staffing,
its client CCI, or any of CCI's clients.



                                -----Original Message-----
                                From: Jim Strickland
[mailto:jim_at_calico.litterbox.com]
                                Sent: Friday, June 18, 1999 3:58 PM
                                To: Discussion re-collecting of classic
computers
                                Subject: OT -mostly -

                                After playing with BeOS a while something
occurred to me. Does anyone remember
                                at what point operating systems stopped
coming with development tools? I'm
                                remembering the commodore 64 that came with
Basic, and if you typed in the
                                assembler from the manual, you could (at
least in theory) write proffessional
                                quality assembly language programs worthy of
being sold to others.

                                Compare this to modern OSs - windows, macos,
etc where the development package
                                costs hundreds or thousands of dollars
extra.

                                (small plug - BeOS comes with
(theoretically) all the tools you need to do
                                development on it.)
                                --
                                Jim Strickland
                                jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
        
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