re some info the dos msw meltdown is progressing nicely mfraioli grebyn com marc fraioli writes messina netcom com tony porczyk writes ajayshah almaak usc edu ajay shah writes the preferred applications development platform unix dos msw development of what in house apps maybe but certainly not apps to be sold on an open market statistics like that are laughable actually you might be surprised to find that not everyone who develops mainstream dos and windows apps develops them under dos or windows pc week recently printed a rumor that microsoft s excel development group does its development under os if you believe that i have a nice piece for swamp for you for re development microsoft does even its techpubs under windows another trade rag did an article recently about a group doing windows development on sun sparcstations with softpc to test out their work that wasn t geo works was it dos and windows are simply not robust or stable enough for development work imho and apparently others agree nonsense sorry i make fun of windows all the time but the above is simply a myth tell that to microsoft novell and others who dominate the market t
