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From: Ted Dennison <dennison@telepath.com>
Subject: Re: urgent question to maintain the ada-language inside the
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Date: 2000/09/27
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In article <8qrrdk0191a@drn.newsguy.com>,
  nospam@nospam wrote:
> In article <r58A5.6582$O7.121171@ozemail.com.au>, "Chris says...
>
> >
> >And it doesn't have to be one or the other. My current favorite
> >platform is a dual boot PC with (NT4/W2000) and Linux. This gives the
> >best of both worlds, and you only need a single box on the desk.
> >
> >You can use MS Office to do all the usual corporate stuff (Staroffice
> >isn't quite there yet), then hit ctrl-alt-del, and you have all the
> >good old Unix "pigs in mud" Makefiles, CVS, editors, shell scripts
> >and more. I do most Ada programming on Linux.
> my arrangment I think is even better than yours.
>
> I use Linux and have vmare running on it. I installed NT on vmware.
> vmware is a virtual PC.  I do NOT have to reboot to use windows. I

You could also go the other way. I stick with Windows 2K, but have
cygwin installed with it. That gives me nearly all of Unix (certianly
everything Chris mentioned), while running under Windows. The
only significant piece I'm missing is gprof. And I seriously doubt
vmware can run Diablo II.

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