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- From: Ryou Seong-Joon <stjohn@hnc.co.kr>
- Organization: Hangul & Computer Co., Ltd
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- To: executor@ardi.com
- Subject: OS/2 Porting
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- I think Ardi should consider OS/2 porting more seriously.
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- It comes out of two reasons.
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- 1. OS/2 users are the ones who are willing to pay
- money at their software but are hungry at qualified
- softwares. These days, os/2 users can use windows
- 3.x software seamlessly but no more win32 programs.
- (though newer win32s 1.25 beta works some..)
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- It's time for os/2 users to taste Mac software now,
- instead of win32 programs. Although, Executor 1.99q7
- works under my Warp (Compaq Presario CDS 972) now,
- I'm sure the performance will be much better if compiled
- for os/2 native code excaping VDM overhead
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- 2. IBM is the largest hardware/software company in this
- world. (not microsoft) And since os/2 lacks end user
- software, they do all their best to support developers.
- For Examples, they pay US rebates to for every OS/2
- one applications saled that bundles os/2 package.
- (For example, borland C/C++ for OS/2 bundles os/2 itself
- and gets rebate from IBM) I don't know about US rebates,
- but in my country, it's about US $25.
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- Also, there are lots of money IBM spends on supporting
- OS/2 developers. I sincerely advice you people at
- ardi to contact IBM and get their money, before they
- get real MAE for OS/2 directly from Apple! I'm sure
- that IBM will pay for you if you develop Executor for
- real OS/2, not for it's DOS box.
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- Sincerey yours,
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- St. John from Seoul
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