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- From: andrewb@lynx.cs.washington.edu (Andrew Berg)
- Subject: Re: Distributing TPUs
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.022633.14853@beaver.cs.washington.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 92 02:26:33 GMT
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- Duncan Murdoch (dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca) wrote:
- : In article <1992Dec26.124053.23373@beaver.cs.washington.edu> andrewb@lynx.cs.washington.edu (Andrew Berg) writes:
-
- : >This really isn't a big deal when you consider that there are really only 3
- : >versions of TP to distribute for.
-
- : If you're willing to limit yourself to DOS, there are 4 in common use now:
- : TP 5.5, 6.0, 7.0 and 7.0 protected mode. If you want your code to be
-
- Sorry. I didn't realize that 7.0 protected mode generated different TUP's.
-
- : available to people programming for Windows, there are two more (TPW 1.5 and
- : BP 7.0 windows mode). These are the common ones; there are also a few other
-
- Why not distribute .DLL's? (I've never used TPW or BP 7.0 -- maybe they can't
- support them)
-
- : people using other versions because of budget limitations or other special
- : reasons.
-
- Yes, I do use version 3 on occasion, but I don't expect anybody's TPU's to
- work with it. :)
-
- : Then there are the persistent rumours of 32 bit versions of TP coming out
- : sometime next year - your old .TPU files would certainly be incompatible
- : with those.
-
- Sounds like a case of the advance of technology preventing useful stuff
- from being accomplished.
-
- : I don't think it's feasible any more to include enough .TPU files to cover
- : a majority of the market.
-
- Does anyone know what the motivation for not ever having any backward com-
- patibility between any of the TPU formats? It seems like it would be a useful
- thing.
-
- : Duncan Murdoch
- : dmurdoch@mast.queensu.ca
-
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