Beautifull!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks Charles for taking the time.
-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Baker 
To: Csound List 
Date: Friday, April 23, 1999 11:44 PM
Subject: Re: Winsound v. 3.53 ROCKS!!(GAG! SERIOUS FLAME!)


>WARNING!!
>*SERIOUS* FLAME ON:
>Re: Windows
>
> I cannot let this pass without pointing out that I have currently *five*
>job offers to
>basically the same thing:
>Move E-commerce sites from horribly unstable and slow NT platforms & A.S.P.
>to
>stable, scalable and fast Unix servers and C or Perl. In all cases, NT was
>chosen by
>the high-level management, and was found to be inadequate after it was
>deployed.
>What does that say for Microsoft?
>
>If you prefer M.S. O.Ses....well I would bet that lot of you have worked
>primarily on
>MS the entire time you have worked on computers. Sigh. I have worked on
>well..so many OSes I cannot remember (> 8), and I find Windows to be the
>least attractive of the lot. Others may disagree... but they are *wrong*.
>Period.
>
>I personally find csound under linux *much* faster than Microsoft based
>platforms.
>
>Of course, I do not do real-time. If you want to waste your $2000 box to
>poorly mimic a
>$500-$1000 synthesiser's sound, go ahead.
>I think I have *yet* to hear a csound instrument that runs in real-time
that
>sounds interesting.
>
>There is *so* much more that csound can do.
>It is a pity that so many users seem to find
>real-time response the be-all-and-end-all of csound work.
>Gag. If I hear another MIDI realization using 3 oscs, pluck, and a
>cheap-filtered-white-noise-closed-cymbal-chiff,
>I think I will violently void my stomach contents.
>
>BACK TO "DISSIN'" THE WORST OS OF ALL TIME:
>
>If you think that hardware support is a good reason for using M.S. :
>well, maybe, but ask yourself: if they *didn't* have a clear monopoly,
would
>
>this hardware support superiority exist? CLEARLY NOT. I KNOW NO PROGRAMMER
>(caveat: as personal aquaintance) WHO PREFERS MS DEV. ENVIRONMENTS. Usless
>they use it exclusively, and are deathly afraid of Emacs. (poor lost
>souls....)
>
>Having spent a little time recently fixing a MS VisualStudio (C++) app for
a
>client, I can say,
>"God, I can't imagine someone who prefers this tool to gcc/gdb/emacs!!!"
>So yes, I've tried it & I'M KNOCKING IT. IT SUCKS.
>Please grow up as programmers, folks. Learn gnu software.
>
>OK -
>flame over. whew.
>
>Please forgive. I wish I didn't care so much about this issue. Really.
>
>CharlieB
>
>
>
>"Job M. van Zuijlen" wrote:
>
>> Hear, hear!
>>
>> Terry Cast wrote:
>> >
>> > And some people like Windows, for various reasons.
>> >
>> > jpff@maths.bath.ac.uk wrote:
>> >
>> > > Message written at 23 Apr 1999 13:25:11 +0100
>> > > --- Copy of mail to pipe@algonet.se ---
>> > >
>> > > Some people are constrained to run Windows.  For example, our beloved
>> > > head of department has recently bought a number of PCs which are not
>> > > capable of running Linux, and we may be forced into using NT.
>> > > Personally I use SGI for choise, but also run Windows95, Linux and
>> > > MacOs 7 (and teh Atari seems to have died).
>> > >
>> > > ==John ffitch
>
>