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- In <ufd96oyi6q.fsf@ftp.ardi.com>, Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com> writes:
- >ARDI has tentatively already planned to port Executor to OS/2. I
- >don't think we could be more serious then that. We can't start any
- >new projects until Executor 2 is shipping though.
-
- Cliff, can you say whether an OS/2 port would take priority over a
- Win32 port, or would at least proceed at the same priority as a Win32
- port?
-
- ARDI has been very nice about telling its customers what its plans are,
- and I'd just like to nail this one down "for the record."
-
- >You are right, a native OS/2 version of Executor will be more
- >efficient than E/D.
-
- And can be much more feature rich. Mac file system handling could
- easily be programmed using an IFS, something that I had been toying
- around with writing a while back. Many of the Mac functions could
- be directly mapped to OS/2 APIs (like the original way Windows
- software was planned to run under OS/2, and the way DAX works
- now.) In fact, as has been detailed in some of the comp.os.os2 news-
- groups, Executor could be almost be implemented using OpenDoc
- (e.g., defining a method for manipulating Mac executables instead of
- establishing your own run-time environment. The proposal of which
- I speak is making a Web browser an OpenDoc part, like Apple's
- CyberDog.)
-
- >We will approach IBM when we have our first publicly demonstrable E/D
- >2.0 beta CD-ROMs out. This should be "soon".
-
- Keep us informed!
-
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