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- From: alongton@clark.net (Andy Longton)
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- Subject: Re: OS/2 Porting
- Date: 22 Mar 1996 19:06:07 GMT
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- Charles R. Hunter (huntercr@cs.purdue.edu) wrote:
- :
- : OS/2 already has GCC (EMX) ... What is Executor written in?
- : OS/2 has SVGAlib ... What is Executor/Linux usable with?
- : OS/2 has XFree86 ... What is Executor/Linux also use?
- :
- : A DAX port for a nonexisting ( as of yet ) Executor Windows version
- : would be silly, when ARDI can do it now.
- : Also, ARDI has already stated that they would rather do a fullscreen version
- : than a PM version.
-
- I'd buy it -- IF Ardi was commited to doing the port.
-
- As for concerns of Ardi being overloaded, that sounds like a management
- decision.
-
- If they can't do it, they can't. It doesn't mean I'm going to roll over
- and buy Executor now just because they can't make an OS/2 version right
- now.
-
- I wouldn't buy a Pentium if Compaq didn't sell Pentium Pros either -- I
- know what I need, and will wait till it is available or find another way
- to fill that need. This is not an insult or confrontation of Ardi --
- what they have is indeed amazing -- but it's a statement of facts from my
- own point of view.
-
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