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- >>>>> "Greg" == GMangen <GMangen@aol.com> writes:
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- [Speedometer comments removed, since they were answered by Mat]
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- Greg> Oh, and a long time ago someone mentioned ARDI was given a
- Greg> free copy of NT by someone with the Microsoft Employee
- Greg> store.
-
- That person was Chris Hedberg <chrished@microsoft.com>. I didn't
- announce his name originally because I hadn't asked him whether or not
- he wanted to remain anonymous, but since he doesn't mind, I'm taking
- this time to publicly thank him.
-
- After weighing all the considerations, we'll be buying a new disk to
- install Windows NT on so that we can test E/D under Windows NT and
- also find and fix the problem with networked mounted filesystems.
-
- Greg> Are there any plans for ever making a version of
- Greg> Executor for NT? I ask because what I have learned about it
- Greg> lately is that is really is the future of MS platforms and
- Greg> also I think it could be a great meeting point for legacy
- Greg> WinDOS code and Mac, since you could conceivably code it all
- Greg> as just another subsystem like the POSIX subsystem & the
- Greg> Win32 & OS/2 subsystems. That way either you could run some
- Greg> Mac apps seamless or have the "browser" as a task built
- Greg> right into the preemptive protected mode model.
-
- My impression was that if we did a native Win32 version that one such
- version would suffice for Windows '95 and Windows NT. I can't say
- I've looked into it in detail, though. We certainly plan on a native
- Windows '95 version.
-
- Greg> Just a thought...
-
- Greg> Greg M.
-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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