home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- id m0u09TQ-0007qxa; Fri, 22 Mar 96 09:13 MST
- Sender: owner-executor
- Received: from ardi.com by ftp.ardi.com
- (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0u09St-0007qdn; Fri, 22 Mar 96 09:13 MST
- Path: sloth.swcp.com!tesuque.cs.sandia.gov!ferrari.mst6.lanl.gov!nntp-server.caltech.edu!fnnews.fnal.gov!uwm.edu!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!news-e2a.gnn.com!newstf01.news.aol.com!newsbf02.news.aol.com!not-for-mail
- From: compexpr@aol.com (CompExpr)
- Newsgroups: comp.emulators.mac.executor
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Porting
- Date: 21 Mar 1996 15:29:57 -0500
- Organization: America Online, Inc. (1-800-827-6364)
- Lines: 30
- Message-ID: <4ise85$6bi@newsbf02.news.aol.com>
- References: <4iqokc$afa@clarknet.clark.net>
- Reply-To: compexpr@aol.com (CompExpr)
- NNTP-Posting-Host: newsbf02.mail.aol.com
- To: executor@ardi.com
- X-MailNews-Gateway: From newsgroup comp.emulators.mac.executor
- Sender: owner-executor@ardi.com
- Precedence: bulk
-
- alongton@clark.net (Andy Longton) wrote:
-
- >CompExpr (compexpr@aol.com) wrote:
- >: I just have to respond to all of the OS/2 people saying that an OS/2
- port
- >: would be the best thing for ARDI to do...
-
- >Well, if Ardi is going to do a Windows port, than it is trivial to do an
- >OS/2 port from the Windows code. Does this look like a good compromise?
-
- My whole point in a nutshell is when you are overworked and understaffed
- (as ARDI currently is...), you really shouldn't start to spread yourself
- too thin.
-
- Now, my impression of ARDI's strategy is that they aren't looking to take
- anymore ports on until they can get 2.0 out the door, and more CA$H and
- engineers IN the door.
-
- At that point I'd have no objection to ANY port of Executor. I just wanted
- the OS/2 people to realize that ARDI isn't able to do the OS/2 port now no
- matter how trivial it seems to them.
-
- We were lucky to get the sound support we now have (which wasn't planned
- until after 2.0) because someone outside of ARDI wrote the code.
-
- I'm pretty sure a Windows to OS/2 port of this type is NOT trivial or
- fast. Emulation seems to me to be a very difficult undertaking, otherwise
- there'd be a lot more emulators out there on the market.
-
- - Al Hartman, Computer Expressions -
-
-