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- 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.
-
- The two biggest things for me are networking and getting the postscript
- printing problems straightened out. If System 7 would help this, fine.
- But I run under Linux, so I don't really worry about an operating system
- because I've already got a good one.
-
- Right now, I do all the work on my Linux box when running Excel, then put
- it on a floppy and print it out on my old SE30 so that the printouts
- look good. Kind of a pain.
-
-