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Re: OS/2 Porting



>>>>> "St. John" == Ryou Seong-Joon <stjohn@hnc.co.kr> writes:
In article <3135EED0.7F7A@red.hnc.co.kr> Ryou Seong-Joon <stjohn@hnc.co.kr> writes:


    St. John> I think Ardi should consider OS/2 porting more
    St. John> seriously.  It comes out of two reasons.

ARDI has tentatively already planned to port Executor to OS/2.  I
don't think we could be more serious then that.  We can't start any
new projects until Executor 2 is shipping though.

    St. John> 1. OS/2 users are the ones who are willing to pay money
    St. John> at their software but are hungry at qualified softwares.
    St. John> These days, os/2 users can use windows 3.x software
    St. John> seamlessly but no more win32 programs.  (though newer
    St. John> win32s 1.25 beta works some..)

    St. John>    It's time for os/2 users to taste Mac software now,
    St. John> instead of win32 programs.  Although, Executor 1.99q7
    St. John> works under my Warp (Compaq Presario CDS 972) now, I'm
    St. John> sure the performance will be much better if compiled for
    St. John> os/2 native code excaping VDM overhead

You are right, a native OS/2 version of Executor will be more
efficient than E/D.

    St. John> 2. IBM is the largest hardware/software company in this
    St. John> world. (not microsoft) And since os/2 lacks end user
    St. John> software, they do all their best to support developers.
    St. John> For Examples, they pay US rebates to for every OS/2 one
    St. John> applications saled that bundles os/2 package.  (For
    St. John> example, borland C/C++ for OS/2 bundles os/2 itself and
    St. John> gets rebate from IBM) I don't know about US rebates, but
    St. John> in my country, it's about US $25.

    St. John>    Also, there are lots of money IBM spends on
    St. John> supporting OS/2 developers.  I sincerely advice you
    St. John> people at ardi to contact IBM and get their money,
    St. John> before they get real MAE for OS/2 directly from Apple!
    St. John> I'm sure that IBM will pay for you if you develop
    St. John> Executor for real OS/2, not for it's DOS box.

We will approach IBM when we have our first publicly demonstrable E/D
2.0 beta CD-ROMs out.  This should be "soon".

    St. John> Sincerey yours,

    St. John> St. John from Seoul

Thank you for the suggestion. 

--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com


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