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- From: Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com>
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- Subject: Re: OS/2 Porting
- Date: 07 Mar 1996 09:35:57 -0700
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- In-reply-to: Ryou Seong-Joon's message of Fri, 01 Mar 1996 03:22:08 +0900
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- >>>>> "St. John" == Ryou Seong-Joon <stjohn@hnc.co.kr> writes:
- In article <3135EED0.7F7A@red.hnc.co.kr> Ryou Seong-Joon <stjohn@hnc.co.kr> writes:
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- St. John> I think Ardi should consider OS/2 porting more
- St. John> seriously. It comes out of two reasons.
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- ARDI has tentatively already planned to port Executor to OS/2. I
- don't think we could be more serious then that. We can't start any
- new projects until Executor 2 is shipping though.
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- St. John> 1. OS/2 users are the ones who are willing to pay money
- St. John> at their software but are hungry at qualified softwares.
- St. John> These days, os/2 users can use windows 3.x software
- St. John> seamlessly but no more win32 programs. (though newer
- St. John> win32s 1.25 beta works some..)
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- St. John> It's time for os/2 users to taste Mac software now,
- St. John> instead of win32 programs. Although, Executor 1.99q7
- St. John> works under my Warp (Compaq Presario CDS 972) now, I'm
- St. John> sure the performance will be much better if compiled for
- St. John> os/2 native code excaping VDM overhead
-
- You are right, a native OS/2 version of Executor will be more
- efficient than E/D.
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- St. John> 2. IBM is the largest hardware/software company in this
- St. John> world. (not microsoft) And since os/2 lacks end user
- St. John> software, they do all their best to support developers.
- St. John> For Examples, they pay US rebates to for every OS/2 one
- St. John> applications saled that bundles os/2 package. (For
- St. John> example, borland C/C++ for OS/2 bundles os/2 itself and
- St. John> gets rebate from IBM) I don't know about US rebates, but
- St. John> in my country, it's about US $25.
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- St. John> Also, there are lots of money IBM spends on
- St. John> supporting OS/2 developers. I sincerely advice you
- St. John> people at ardi to contact IBM and get their money,
- St. John> before they get real MAE for OS/2 directly from Apple!
- St. John> I'm sure that IBM will pay for you if you develop
- St. John> Executor for real OS/2, not for it's DOS box.
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- We will approach IBM when we have our first publicly demonstrable E/D
- 2.0 beta CD-ROMs out. This should be "soon".
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- St. John> Sincerey yours,
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- St. John> St. John from Seoul
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- Thank you for the suggestion.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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