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Re: OS/2 port?? Who Cares



"Steve D." <smd3@ix.netcom.com> writes:

OS/2 USERS: PLEASE IGNORE THIS OBVIOUS TROLL!
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>I think ARDI has the right idea just be making a DOS version. It runs 
>fine in Windows95, even in Dos. So why are the OS/2 users complaining? 

Yes, it runs fine, but we know it could run better.

>They have DOS capability. I know I bought OS/2 WARP (big mistake for 
>me). If they do any sort of 32-bit porting, which would be great, they 

All of the ports of Executor are done with GCC, and therefore 32-bit
already.

>should make it to the Win-32s/Windows95 platform. This is the most 

This has already been stated as a future platform by ARDI

>widely used platform. These people (I beleive from the messages here on 

Win95 is not a leading platform by any means. Check any statictics you want.
Windows 3x is however a leading platform... ( see above )

The point that OS/2 users are trying to make is that the development tools
for an OS/2 version exist already ( GCC + XFree86 + SVGAlib etc... )
These do not even exist for Win3|Win95 and will cause ARDI to have to 
do more coding to make a Windows port.  A port to OS/2 would take a 
week at most. A port to Windows would at least a month. ( Caution: this is
a generalization )

ARDI is well aware of this.

>this newsgroup) account for the majority of the EXECUTOR users. While it 
>is great that OS/2 users are enthusiastic about their platform, I 
>beleive ARDI has already done great. I don't think we should complain, 

We also believe that ARDI has done great.

>we purchased the product (at a lower cost than the shipping cost), we 
>helped perfect it by repoting bugs, and we have supported it. Live with 
>what you got, and remember the 8086-80286 machines out there. We have 
>gone a long way...

I don't understand what this has to do with OS/2 users. Are you saying that 
none of us have registered?

>ON A SIDE NOTE, WILL EXECUTOR RUN ON AN 80286?? WE STILL USE THEM AT 
>SCHOOL, AND THIS MIGHT BE INTERESTING TO SEE...

No, it will not.


>steve...

-- Charles Hunter

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Charles R. Hunter 	 	
Purdue University School of Science             huntercr@cs.purdue.edu
West Lafayette, IN                              mechainc@expert.cc.purdue.edu


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