If I were developing calculator programs, it would be in OSX. I *was* working on a ticalc statistics program, but until I can get wxPython to cooperate with me, it's going to be on hold.

what if you program assembly and BASIC? no choice for that. Just 'i only program on my calc' and all the other computor choices. multiple choices are good, but i'm making a big deal out of something so tiny that doesn't matter in any manner.

But still, multiple choices are good and should have been made for this particular question.

I program on windows (98-piece of crap and XP-tasm doesn't work for me on xp)

windows 98 sucks because it is slow(to boot) and doesn't look nice, but it is fine for simple calculator stuff.

I got really off topic. that happens a lot.

What is wrong with win 98. It is better than win 95 isn't it. Or even win 3.1?

Then again, OS X is better than OS 9 which is better than OS 8 which is better than OS 7... what's your point? Although, I wonder why anyone would be using 98. Win2000 is much better and it runs ok on older systems.

<not_flamebait> And "prebuilt" Linux distros like FC4 and SuSE beat the crap out of all of them but OS X...</not_flamebait>

I have to agree, though, Win2000 is fairly stable and the performance isn't bad compared to other Windows versions.

I'm not so sure that OS 9 was better than OS 8 or System 7. X is obviously better, though.

Win 98 is great for me because win 2000 will not run om my old laptop

i just have win 2000. but my old win 98 ran better. i program on my calc ,too but it takes much time :( . so i think everybody has to decide on his own where he should program.

are you talking about mac OS's (i don't know-never had a mac)

slow. (maybe it's just the computer itself)

anyway, it takes about 10 minutes to boot, and occasionally freezes for NO REASON. i've never had xp freeze, but i havn't had xp for all that long (6 or 7 months) i still think 98 is crap. it is better than 95, but 95 is practically the building block for future versions.

If it takes 10 minutes just to boot, there's something wrong with the computer. My Win98 computer boots at the same speed as my XP computer(about 1-2 min.) even though the processor is about four times slower and it has half the ram.

You probably have a bunch of useless programs that slow it down or viruses.