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- On Mon, 31 Jul 1995, Clifford Thomas Matthews wrote:
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- > Chad> Any chance of releasing new BleedingEdge releases? I
- > Chad> liked having those for 1.99n(x)...
- >
- > Yes. It looks like 1.99o2 (there is no 1.99o1) will be cut within the
- > next couple of days. Of course I've been wrong almost every time I've
- > made a prediction in the past. O2 will have our new mods, but won't
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- Sounds great!
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- > do much towards solving the DOS bugs that we introduced with 1.99n.
- > However, that's going to be my top priority now (Mat's top priority
- > will be the NEXTSTEP port, Cotton's will be to write the remaining
- > pieces of missing functionality).
- >
- Sounds like the works getting divided up pretty well - I'd like
- to also see the SVGAlib port out (soon after NEXTSTEP?) to see what
- Executor/Linux can *really* do graphics-wise!
-
- > We now have much more information about System 7 requiring apps than
- > we did before the beginning of the hackathon. The good news is that
- > we were able to code up a lot more of System 7 during the hackathon.
-
- Good to hear... I know System 7 is like a brand new OS, for
- better or worse (a lot of it is for the worse in terms of memory and
- speed, although I hear 7.5 does something about that.)
-
- > The bad news is there are some areas that are going to be hard to code
- > up or spoof in time for 2.0 and these areas are indeed *required* by
- > some of the biggest apps.
-
- Lemme guess - the OLE 2 modules used by Word for Macindows 6 need
- a *lot* of System 7 features to support Word... OLE 2 code bloat is
- pretty bad under Windows, and when it's spooged into the Mac, it seems to
- have gotten worse.
-
- > Anyway, with this new information, we'll be
- > solidifying just what we need to have in 2.0 before we go beta. I'm
- > hoping we'll have an internal list in the next couple of days. We'll
- > then discuss it amongst ourselves for a while, then ask for your (the
- > members of this list) opinions.
- >
- That sounds like a good plan - I'm looking forward to seeing it.
-
- > Hmmm... to have less money than ARDI means to owe more than $600k. I
- > knew college tuition had gotten steep, but that's ridiculous!
-
- Well, I wasn't considering loans! :) Seriously, if I had the
- spare 10-20 million lying around, I'd look into buying up ARDI, and
- getting more engineers - in hardware and software. I think having $500
- '030 Mac clones, without ties to Apple, would be great. Basically, I'd
- try to turn Executor into the Phoenix BIOS of Mac-dom, while evolving it
- as an emulator for IBMs at the same time.
-
- (The Phoenix BIOS was the first IBM clone BIOS widely available
- to other companies - Compaq's was first, but Phoenix had the first widely
- available clean-room approach for other companies, and would even pay legal
- fees... having a Phoenix BIOS was kinda a stamp of compatibility.)
-
- > In all seriousness, the question of student pricing has more to do
- > with what sort of distribution we use. One possibility would be to
- > have student pricing, but *only* when done through student bookstores.
-
- That sounds good. One of the best reasons to go to college it
- seems is to get great prices on software (Office 4.2 for < US$180 for
- instance :) ... that would make it much easier to afford.
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- - Chad
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