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- John Foust (syndesis@beta.inc.net) wrote:
- : In article <3iu3j8$hsb@newsbf02.news.aol.com>, stranahan@aol.com (Stranahan) says:
- : >
- : >Quick question for Mr. Foust - when is Interchange for the Pc going to be
- : >ready and will it run on an Alpha?
- : >
- : >Inquiring minds, etc....
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- : Before LightWave ships. :-) It's in beta testing right now.
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- : It's a Win32s program, which means the Intel binary won't
- : run on the Alpha until they improve their emulator, which I've
- : always heard they were going to do someday.
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- : We did perform a test port to a DeskStation MIPS machine.
- : It took only a few hours to tinker with the makefiles, and
- : it worked the first try.
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- : Now that those changes have been made, I'm sure it would
- : be easy to port to the Alpha. But we've never before had a
- : single request from a user to go to the Alpha before.
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- : For that matter, I don't think we had any serious inquiries
- : about whether we'd run on the MIPS, aside from the good
- : people at DeskStation. :-)
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- Consider this a request to port to the Alpha. I'm running an Aspen
- Systems machine and would like as many of my commonly used tools as
- possible ported to the Alpha. BTW I used to beta-test for you but
- have'nt heard anything from you in a long time. Hope to talk to you
- soon.
-
- Dave Paige
- dave@melmac.umd.edu
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