re some info the dos msw meltdown is progressing nicely in article messinac b zl iho netcom com messina netcom com tony porczyk writes ajayshah almaak usc edu ajay shah writes the preferred applications development platform according to of the fortune corporations survey by sentry market research survey unix mainframe 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 because they may simply mean that there are not enough shrink wrapped usable apps for unix and they have to be developed disproportionately often as compared to the installed unix base t 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 another trade rag did an article recently about a group doing windows development on sun sparcstations with softpc to test out their work sco unix is and has been a reasonably popular development platform for dos windows and even os apps dos and windows are simply not robust or stable enough for development work imho and apparently others agree marc fraioli mfraioli grebyn com so i m a minimalist
