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Re: Let's get System 7.x on top!



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.


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