I agree with your comments on Win98 as a development enviroment, but I have to disagree on the NT stuff. _What_ the hell are you doing as a developer to make NT crash? Low-level programming or system drivers?
Please add the type of programming you do to the debate. Thanks.
Coward. His post said Word97 on Win98. If think our apps run as well under Win98 as they do under WinNT, drop me an email and I'll get you a job in microsoft marketing.;-)
First of all, if anyone takes the time to read the article instead of looking at the Anon cowards comments you know SGI is not "dumping NT" but spinning it off to a partner (my guess is Dell, because Dell was already re-selling their flat panel monitors).
It never ceases to amaze me that slashdot, which normally has decent oversight of articles, will post the biggest piles of biased shit when it comes to anything with the word Microsoft in it. Last time I checked, the slogan was "News for Nerds", not "News for rabid Microsoft-haters". I guess the whole world is getting more tabloid by the minute.
Secondly, if anyone has any experience with the SGI NT Workstations, you know that they were providing commodity hardware at a premium price. I'm only going to pay so much more for a cool purple box. Plus it had some weird quirks like a proprietary output for its flat panel and only one video card to support it.
The Microsoft-haters out their can view this as problem with NT, but you would be kidding yourself. SGI is hoping the Linux hype can float their boat a little longer. Fine, whatever helps your company, but don't bash NT because SGI has problems.
Regardless of the debate on the quality of the kernel point releases, I think a few of the big open source names (ESR, Linus) are a little drunk on their 15 minutes of fame.
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Aphrael,
I agree with your comments on Win98 as a development enviroment, but I have to disagree on the NT stuff. _What_ the hell are you doing as a developer to make NT crash? Low-level programming or system drivers?
Please add the type of programming you do to the debate. Thanks.
Coward. His post said Word97 on Win98. If think our apps run as well under Win98 as they do under WinNT, drop me an email and I'll get you a job in microsoft marketing. ;-)
First of all, if anyone takes the time to read the article instead of looking at the Anon cowards comments you know SGI is not "dumping NT" but spinning it off to a partner (my guess is Dell, because Dell was already re-selling their flat panel monitors).
It never ceases to amaze me that slashdot, which normally has decent oversight of articles, will post the biggest piles of biased shit when it comes to anything with the word Microsoft in it. Last time I checked, the slogan was "News for Nerds", not "News for rabid Microsoft-haters". I guess the whole world is getting more tabloid by the minute.
Secondly, if anyone has any experience with the SGI NT Workstations, you know that they were providing commodity hardware at a premium price. I'm only going to pay so much more for a cool purple box. Plus it had some weird quirks like a proprietary output for its flat panel and only one video card to support it.
The Microsoft-haters out their can view this as problem with NT, but you would be kidding yourself. SGI is hoping the Linux hype can float their boat a little longer. Fine, whatever helps your company, but don't bash NT because SGI has problems.
This guy is not a lead developer for me! :-)
.02 cents
Regardless of the debate on the quality of the kernel point releases, I think a few of the big open source names (ESR, Linus) are a little drunk on their 15 minutes of fame.
Just my
Do you really think a Linux->Win98 comparison is fair? Sure they compare on price, but you would have to be really clueless to compare stability.
I think they should have titled this article "Upside publicly performs oral sex on Linus". I've never seen a bigger puff piece in my life.