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- Dan Guisinger (dan_g@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
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- : Here I'll explain the reasons for a port to Win95/NT and OS/2.
- : (Note, I don't use OS/2, and don't know how easy the features that
- : windows can handle can be put into OS/2 since they aren't designed the
- : same since 1991)
- :
- : 1) IFS -- Windows 95 and NT 4.0 (Not sure about 3.51) use an
- : Installable File System. This was, ALL programs can read from Mac disks.
- I believe that this also applies to Windows 3.11
- : Not only that, it would guarrentee that if you wanted it, you could make
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- : an actual partition on the Mac side.
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- : 2) Very Large API -- Both OS/2 and Win32 have thousands of API calls
- : that hide hardware from the programmers, making the development time
- : decrease.
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- : 3) True 32-bit OSes -- All three OSes do MOST of their work in 32-bit
- : (Yes, I know that window management in 95 IS 16, but thats all)
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- : 4) Cut & Paste -- You'll beable to share information via the Clipboard
- : with Mac and PC programs.
- That *could* be done with a dos version.
- : 5) Fonts -- Windows and OS/2 support True Type Fonts. ARDIs generic
- : system doesn't. What could they do? Route calls thru to Windows or
- : OS/2. I don't even know if they can do it any other way. Microsoft and
- : IBM had to licence TTF code. It could be that its a patented technoligy
- : or something, and ARDI would have to licence it too (Correct me if I'm
- : wrong)
- OS/2 does not support True Type fonts.
- : 6) Control Panels -- The way Windows uses control panels is this. A
- : singe CPL file can represent many different applets. ARDI can make a CPL
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- : file that searches for Mac control panels and then displays icons for
- : those, making settings for both the PC and Mac work together seamlessly.
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- : 7) Multitasking -- OS/2 and Win32 are thru multitasking and
- : multithreading. This means ARDI doesn't exactly have to spend too much
- : time on getting the system to multitask.
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- : 8) Same Desktop -- All programs can run on the same desktop. Windows,
- : OS/2, and Mac (Especally true with OS/2 for Windows or OS/2 with
- : Windows)
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- : 9) DirectX. Video/Sound/Networking are all much **FASTER** when using
- : these APIs, thus improving preformance to or above a DOS machine with the
- : same hardware.
- :
- : 10) Virtual Memory -- Executor currently has the limit of NO virtual
- : memory. Win95 has an dynamic swap file that grows/shrinks with use.
- : Executor can report the maxinum amount of memory a 68040 (and in
- : the future, PPC) can handle, and thus no memory problems.
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- : I also saw mentioned that with Win95 you need more than 8 megs ram.
- : That may be true, but by the time Executor/95 comes out, 8 megs of ram
- : will cost around $80! There is a shift in the market that is making all
- : RAM prices drop this year, its already started, and will finish later
- : this year.
- : And to that mention of using a 386. Give me a break. Who would
- : seriously try emulating anything as complicated as a Mac (68040) on such
- : a slow machine. Besides for one person, I don't know any body with one
- : If you have a 386 and don't want to pay for a new system, may I suggest
- : Evergreens MakeIt 486??????
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- : And to say Win95 runs on top of DOS. You don't know much about the system
- : your insulting do you?
- : Windows 95 loads in real mode, and loads real mode drivers for items not
- : supported under Windows 95.
- : IFS.SYS and HIMEM.SYS are replaced with 32-bit versions (same with
- : DriveSpace) and the rest run off
- Don't you remember 32-bit disk access and 32 bit file access in Windows
- 3.11? That wasn't an operating system. Let's just see Windows 95 working
- without MS-DOS 7. (That's what it's called inside IO.SYS.)
- : of emulated DOS and BIOS calls. The only time your using True DOS 7.0 is
- : when you boot **to** DOS!
- You could say the same thing about Win4WG 3.11 and Dos 6.22!
- : And like I said above, the only part of Win95 that is 16 bit is the part
- : that handles Windows and Menus,
- : etc. That would be why its slow on a Pro is because GDI objects and calls
- : are the most used part of
- : Windows. If you want speed on a P6, get NT. Don't complain here (Notice,
- : I haven't complained about
- : any OS. I think they all have their advantages and disadvantages. And I
- : don't want to see any OS wars
- : in reply to this).
- :
- : -=Dan Guisinger=-
- : A registered user of E/D and E/L
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