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From: steved@pacifier.com (Steve Doiel)
Subject: Re: Operating Systems
Date: 1997/07/26
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In article <33D541EF.17B6@digiscape.com>, yexley@digiscape.com 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.

I would recommend not tying yourself to one operating system.  I have been
trying to do embedded systems development on Windows NT and have found that 
(apparently) most of this type of development is hosted on UNIX (that's
where the best tools are).

Have you considered getting something like "System Commander" so that you
can boot into any one of a number of OS's?  This would make it easy to learn
about Windows NT and Linux on the same machine (for example).

Steve Doiel