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From: Nasser
Subject: Re: Operating Systems
Date: 1997/07/22
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Date: 1997-07-22T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <33D541EF.17B6@digiscape.com>, "Robert says...
>
>Looking for some objective opinions.  I am a new programmer and am going
>to be doing it for a living and will be buying a new computer soon.  I
>am trying to find out what will be the best and most practical operating
>system to run on a home computer that will be used for programming a
>lot.  I have heard very good things about Windows NT, but dont know much
>about it.  Are there any good books that could help me with this?  Can
>somebody help me with what would be best for these purposes?  Thanks for
>the help.

not sure what this has to do with Ada? if you mean you want to use Ada,
and trying to find which is the most Ada-friendly OS, then I would guess
Unix would be more, I am just saying that becuase I can use a GUI based
debugger on Linux (xxgdb) to step and debug in GNAT ada code, while on
windows I am not sure if even there is a GUI debugger for Ada, I know you
can use gdb, but that is not GUI based.

Other than that, If you want an easy to use system, and you do not like
doing system adminstrations, and reading manuals, and man pages, and 
configuration files, then I would go for NT, it has lots of nice applications,
good monitoring and performance tools etc.. else go for Linux, but then be
prepared to spend lots of time on tasks that on NT would be easier for the
home user to do.

other than that, you can get a powerfull Mac, and get the latest "virtual PC"
software for $159 that allows you to run NT and WIN95 and OS/2 on top of 
the MAC.

Nasser