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- From: huntercr@cs.purdue.edu (Charles R. Hunter)
- Newsgroups: comp.emulators.mac.executor
- Subject: Re: OS/2 port?? Who Cares
- Date: 31 Mar 1996 01:01:00 -0500
- Organization: Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University
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- "Steve D." <smd3@ix.netcom.com> writes:
-
- OS/2 USERS: PLEASE IGNORE THIS OBVIOUS TROLL!
- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- >I think ARDI has the right idea just be making a DOS version. It runs
- >fine in Windows95, even in Dos. So why are the OS/2 users complaining?
-
- Yes, it runs fine, but we know it could run better.
-
- >They have DOS capability. I know I bought OS/2 WARP (big mistake for
- >me). If they do any sort of 32-bit porting, which would be great, they
-
- All of the ports of Executor are done with GCC, and therefore 32-bit
- already.
-
- >should make it to the Win-32s/Windows95 platform. This is the most
-
- This has already been stated as a future platform by ARDI
-
- >widely used platform. These people (I beleive from the messages here on
-
- Win95 is not a leading platform by any means. Check any statictics you want.
- Windows 3x is however a leading platform... ( see above )
-
- The point that OS/2 users are trying to make is that the development tools
- for an OS/2 version exist already ( GCC + XFree86 + SVGAlib etc... )
- These do not even exist for Win3|Win95 and will cause ARDI to have to
- do more coding to make a Windows port. A port to OS/2 would take a
- week at most. A port to Windows would at least a month. ( Caution: this is
- a generalization )
-
- ARDI is well aware of this.
-
- >this newsgroup) account for the majority of the EXECUTOR users. While it
- >is great that OS/2 users are enthusiastic about their platform, I
- >beleive ARDI has already done great. I don't think we should complain,
-
- We also believe that ARDI has done great.
-
- >we purchased the product (at a lower cost than the shipping cost), we
- >helped perfect it by repoting bugs, and we have supported it. Live with
- >what you got, and remember the 8086-80286 machines out there. We have
- >gone a long way...
-
- I don't understand what this has to do with OS/2 users. Are you saying that
- none of us have registered?
-
- >ON A SIDE NOTE, WILL EXECUTOR RUN ON AN 80286?? WE STILL USE THEM AT
- >SCHOOL, AND THIS MIGHT BE INTERESTING TO SEE...
-
- No, it will not.
-
-
- >steve...
-
- -- Charles Hunter
-
- --
- Charles R. Hunter
- Purdue University School of Science huntercr@cs.purdue.edu
- West Lafayette, IN mechainc@expert.cc.purdue.edu
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