Re: [IRCA] SDRs, OSes, etc. [OTs made to order]

[Charles A & Leonor L Taylor <calltaylor@xxxxxxx>]

Lee,

The below has to be a magnitude 8 OT, but twic't as interesting as 99.9% of 
the on-topics that I see coming across the IRCA wire.
Please send more OTs like Kevin the Red at ABDX does!

At 12:01 AM 4/5/2006, you wrote:
>Ah, addressing 90% of the potential market is a limitation, eh?
>
>I'm no Microsoft fan, Mike, but that's not a limitation. That's a marketing
>decision to put development resources where they'll get maximum return. It'd
>take considerably more than 10% of development resources to try to address the
>now minor OSes like the various Unixes (including MacOS), Linuxes, OS/2s, 
>BeOs,
>et cetera.
>
>(And before anyone starts barking at my designation of 'minor', I used to work
>for a place that, in 1998, did 90% of its code for high end UNIX boxes and was
>very snotty about Windows the 'toy' OS. Seven years later Windows boxes 
>had 80%
>of the development effort and the UNIX side was rapidly becoming an expensive
>liability that ate developers. People go where the best bang for the buck is -
>ask SGI if you don't believe me. Mac users need not bark, either - you're
>running BSD Unix with a nice Apple-written shell on top!)
>
> >> Being a "software defined" radio, I suppose it only works on one
> >> particular type of computer running one particular operating system.
> >> This would be the biggest drawback, if you ask me.
>
>It's all a question what OS you want to run and what limitations in choices
>you're willing to accept for that in return. I wanted as few as possible in
>terms of available applications to choose from, hence my adoption of Windows
>from OS/2.
>
>   Lee
>
>
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