Re: [gtk-list] [OFFTOPIC] Re: Proposed widget

[Felix Morley Finch <felix crowfix com>]

I have been following this discussion with some interest.  I am new to
Gtk, altho not C or unix.  In general, I agree that all widgets should
be in the distribution and lib.  Gtk is meant (as I understand it) to
be a General Tool Kit.  This implies general purpose.  This implies a
general purpose OS.  Any OS without memory protection is not a general
purpose OS.  It may run games fine.  It may run a few apps fine.  But
it is not a general purpose OS, it is special purpose.

Bragging about AmigaOS running on a 20 MB disk is no big deal; I wrote
a SCSI driver for a UNIX SVR3.2 system, with a 20MB disk as my entire
development and test platform.  I sure owuldn't have called that
general purpose, even tho I also used it with uucp to access
newsgroups and email.  There are versions of Linux running on dinky
little systems.  But they are not general purpose systems.

If you want a special dinky little system, why use Gtk?  Why should
the vast majority of general purpose users be held back and have to
re-invent the wheel, over and over again, because you want it to run
on a special purpose dinkly little system?

BTW, as I understand the Amiga announcement, the x86 4.0 release is a
stopgap developers release only, to get development going until the
new Amiga hardware arrives, which will then use OS 5.0.  I doubt very
seriously that Gateway is thinking of challenging Mickeysoft with a
brand new OS.  About the only splash it will make is in the Amiga world.

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