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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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