> -----Original Message----- > From: KOS [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Friday, January 11, 2013 2:32 AM > To: Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS. > Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] Freedos V2.0 - when will it be available? > > >>>Developers are fairly close-minded. They don't usually > target anybody > outside of the big three, which usually means POSIX + Windows. And > these days they get more kicks out of having ten bazillion ports to > Linux (IA-32 or x64) than others. > > This is because they are mostly constrained by the companies > they work. Time is limited so using stuff that everyone does > to create their programs speeds up implementation time (maybe). > If you leave a developer free (I prefer the word "programmer" > instead), I would bet he would have gone towards the simplest > way to solve his problem, unless he has not got any knowledge > about the hardware. > Thinking about real hardware no one could expect better > performance from the huge libraries. Yes, using these speeds > up your work (or you get much more time searching and finding > what they do to use them), but what about performance? > Simple is rugged, reliable and bugs can be easily corrected. > Although simple is sometimes a pain in the @$$ to write, like > assembler based software.
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