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- On , holmes@gorilla.nbn.com (Tim Holmes) wrote:
- >Clifford T. Matthews (ctm@ardi.com) wrote:
- >: >>>>> "Craig" == Craig Olinsky <crolinsky@vassar.edu> writes:
- >
- >: Craig> Actually, in some ways the a Windows 32-bit port would
- >: Craig> facilitate ARDI devoting more time to work on System 7.xx
- >: Craig> support in that the use of Windows APIs for hardware
- >: Craig> independence would reduce their time spent on issues of:
- >: Craig> system configuration, graphics card drivers/support (well,
- >: Craig> they are already using univbe, but...), sound card, SCSI
- >: Craig> drive/CD-ROM support, etc. that they have with E/D. There
- >: Craig> also is an opportunity for speed gains using WinG/DirectX,
- >: Craig> better use of memory, etc.
- >
- >: Craig has hit the nail on the head. We spend ridiculously large
- >: amounts of time now messing around with DOS intracacies that we can
- >: avoid when we have a more advanced OS backing us up. In all liklihood
- >: we won't add support for things like networking to the DOS specific
- >: version and that will save us time because we'll be able to add
- >: support for networking to the other versions *much* quicker.
-
- And also remember that a Win 32 port would make it possible to run more than
- one Mac app at a time. And possibly one day have interaction between them
- such as drag and drop and many other goodies. I say a Win 32 port is the way
- to go. Let Microsoft handle all the I/O and peripherals that way ARDI can
- concentrate on rock solid Mac OS emulation.
-
- If a good port comes along I wouldn't be suprised if some very tempting offers
- from Microsoft come Ardi's way. They are always looking for established
- technologies they can take credit for. I'm not sure if this would be good or
- bad but I can picture the commercial.
-
- "Your favorite Macintosh Applications on your PC.......Now there are no
- limits.........Microsoft"
-
-
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- Larry Velez
- lev1673@is2.nyu.edu
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