12 Jun
2013
12 Jun
'13
4:09 p.m.
On 6/12/2013 4:19 PM, Peter Corlett wrote:
As it so happens, outside of the willy-waving from
Google et al about how well
they treat their developers, most developers are treated like dirt and get
whatever cast-off hardware the IT department deigns to let them have. I have
fired a number of clients for taking the piss in this regard. No, if you want
me to write Unix software for you, insisting that I must only use a ratty old
Pentium 4 with 512MB of RAM running a locked-down Windows XP that won't even
let me install PuTTY or an editor is not acceptable.
Umm... How do you write Unix software if you are running windows?
Ben.
PS I keep forgetting that the concept of 'a single user UNIX' was never
a selling point so the PC world never got a UNIX like product for the
86's/286's to replace DOS. OS/9 (6809) did come close but a bit to late
for unix like product.