Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 25 Jan 1997 12:56:03 -0800 (PST) | From | "W. Reilly Cooley" <> | Subject | Re: If Linux is to succeed |
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On Sat, 25 Jan 1997, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> most Microsoft APIs are >largely< redundant. Say i've counted 1500 > different API calls in windows.h ... and that doesnt include new bloat > like ActiveX, 3D stuff and the networking nightmare called Netbeui and SMB > over TCP. > > Compare this with the 167 Linux system calls.
You, however, are neglecting that the many Windows API calls are for graphical manipulation, e.g., InvalidateRect(), MsgBox(), and ShowWindow(). For this to be an accurate comparison you'd also have to include the Xlib and perhaps also X Toolkit calls.
I think perhaps you are missing the point about supporting the Windows APIs and such. The idea is not to incorporate this into the primary development environment, but to make it easy for the multitudinous Windows apps to be ported to Linux (or UN*X in general). Linux would be a much more appealing target platform for professional developers if it required little more than a new-line conversion (for readability), a re-make, and a modicum of debugging. Of course, these things always seem kludgy and I doubt if it would ever work properly.
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