Thus spake james.fogg ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> Sorry, but yet another opinion....
>
> I find that a good operating system has a reason for everything and when I
> finally understand the O/S, I agree with the reasons. This has been true of
> AOS/VS (ok, anybody remember that one?), O/S-9, CPM, RSTS, VM, MVS,
> Unix/XENIX/Linux and others. The O/S that resembles a Kommitee Kludge and is
> supposed to be easy to configure is the one I never seem to agree with its
> conventions. But maybe after all these years I just don't understand NT yet.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Hodgers [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 2:59 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [expert] Can't install KNEWS, and an opinion
>
> Now my opinion
> I am a programmer writing Accounting software for the Windows platform
> using Visual Basic.
> One of my REQUIRED tasks is assuring that the program will load on ANY
> Windows machine
> meeting the required hardware, using either Win95 or Win98. ANY required
> libraries MUST be
> included to assure this. In the Linux, it is quite common to find that you
> must go out onto
> the net and search for and load many required libraries, sometimes even
> those won't install
> until other files are obtained.
And is it no fairly common in the W-nn world to find that a new
product has just installed an incompatible version of one of the
standard DLLs? VBRUN300.DLL appears with virtually every package you
install.
And, according to an article about this very issue in the late
lamented Byte, MS doesn't even use version numbers in its libraries
properly, sometimes chaging the code but not the number, sometimes
vice-versa.
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