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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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