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From: "JohnT" <johnt@nettech.demon.co.uk>
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.freetalk.english
Subject: Re: Code W****r
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 1998 21:18:39 -0000
Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE)
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Message-ID: <6epdls$l5r7@chuka.playstation.co.uk>
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Ira Rainey wrote in message ...
>In article <6ep7vs$l5r6@chuka.playstation.co.uk>, West <wb6ac> wrote:
>
>> ira.rainey@btinternet.com (Ira Rainey) wrote:
>>
>> >So do I use Microsoft software everyday (NT4, SQL6.5, VB5, VC++), and
>> >that's exactly why I have a Mac at home. I can't see how anyone who uses
>> >MS products seriously can put down CodeWarrior at all.
>> >
>> >
>>
>> I use Visual C++ and Word and I find I can actually open more than 3
files and
>> work on them without the machine ever crashing. Not something I've
>managed with
>> Codewarrior :)
>
>That may be so, and if that is the case then I'd agree that you should be
>able to open more than 3 files in CW, but look at what you payed for it,
>£90.
>
>When you shell out a Hefty wedge for an NT network setup with SQL server,
>as we have at work, and find out when it goes belly up (which it does)
>that MS don't know anything about your problems, and their best suggestion
>(at £175 per support call) is to reinstall everything (a popular MS bug
>fix), you should worry.
>
What does that have to do with Visual C++ and CW? Nothing!!
Besides, the people who made Windows NT are not the same people who made
Visual C++. They just all work for the same company. Microsoft programmers
are split into MANY teams all working on separate projects. One team may be
better than another and the teams stick to the project they are assigned to.

JohnT

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