Re: the ms monopoly is over. gonna kick some ms ***. are you with me?

Why reinvent the wheel? Isn't it the same as Java? Posix + X window?

"Wo'O" <tiki.1@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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i hesitate to converse, but your questions are valid, i appreciate the
interest, and no one is flaming me. here are some brief responses:

1. IP-DOS (tm) is only a plain vanilla Windows service. It is,
technically, only a Windows app. It is an operating system only from a
point of view focused on the api, i.e. only from an application
programmer's pov.

2. it didn't replace any drivers. it didn't do anything to your
computer. it didn't even modify the registry. it automatically
uninstalls itself on reboot to minimize customer support issues; i want
to be absolutely sure that installation and removal works perfectly
before changing that. it is only a disclosure of information, a "show
and tell", so automatic uninstall makes sense to me

3. the monopoly is over because ten more developers, all more clever
than me, can do what i did. they can defeat microsoft in winning
designs for new applications, i.e. they can convince Joe Coder to write
his app for their api rather than for win32 and its derivatives (e.g.
MFC). applications written to these piggyback api's will be portable
to the extent that the piggyback's api is available on multiple base
os's. for example, IP-DOS (tm) was written with portability in mind.
the base o.s. will become a commodity; base o.s. suppliers will not
enjoy any monopoly power in getting application developers to target
their api

4. gui's improve with age, and this one is just a baby. it is adequate
for its present purpose, which is to allow me to present system
information such as memory pool usage, thread activity, deadlock loops.
my development focus, now that i have a useable presentation
subsystem, is to develop technical content for it that will begin to
make the download interesting to technical people

5. i do not hate Microsoft. i just hate its monopoly, and the implicit
view that there is not room for multiple visions for software
technology. i have a radically, diametrically opposed view from that
of Mr. Gates and the other visionaries at MS. i want to live to see a
software marketplace where there are 4, 10, or even 20 competing
visions for the future of software.

6. wrapping your mind around the "piggyback o.s." concept requires (1)
a Gestalt shift in perception, and (2) identification with the
application programmers' p.o.v. for a group as technically
sophisticated as i think this one is, the idea that IP-DOS (tm) is an
o.s. will always seem absurd. thirty years ago, at UCLA, my
programming professor told me that i had to decide whether i wanted to
be a "system programmer" or an "application programmer". i decided
then, and have always seen myself as, the latter. MS didn't provide me
with a programming abstraction, with an api, that i liked. so i wrote
my own

i do have a policy of not conversing on the net, so please excuse me
for departing. thank you for your interest and for your courtesy



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