Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: crispin@csd.uwo.ca (Crispin Cowan)
Subject: Re: PVM under Windows?
Organization: Department of Computer Science, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
Date: 23 Aug 1994 23:30:30 GMT
Message-ID: <33e0qm$rd9@falcon.ccs.uwo.ca>

In article <B8URBSZN@math.fu-berlin.de>,
Thomas Wolff <wolff@inf.fu-berlin.de> wrote:
>BAD305@UKCC.UKY.EDU (Bill Paterson) writes:
>: >>> Notwithstanding any proprietary secrets, why would you want to
>:     to run PVM under Windows?  I assume that the job would be running
...
>anger. Unix is flexible, yes, that's it. It is extremely user-unfriendly, 
>poorly documented, error-prone, leaving you alone with errors, 
>errors are fostered over years for sake of "compatibility" instead 
>of removing them, it is unsafe in many respects. Widespread add-ons, 
>like X-Windows, are gigantic and slow. Almost worst of all, Unix is 
>basically responsible for the persistent plague of the meanest 
>programming language ever.
But Windows is more huge than X Windows, more slow, even less safe than
UNIX, contains even more DOS-based backward compatible abominations,
and still often makes you program in that mean old programming
language.  Even so, if you're going to use PVM, you get a choice
between C and FORTRAN, so I don't see how that's even relevant.

Crispin
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