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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Mon, 15 Nov 1993 09:06:56 MST
Date: 14 Nov 93 19:31:48 GMT
From: agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uchinews!ellis!goer@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU (Richard L. Goerwitz)
Organization: University of Chicago
Subject: Re: dos executables from icon
Message-Id: <1993Nov14.193148.21881@midway.uchicago.edu>
References: <93312.000307U47041@uicvm.uic.edu>, <931114.21573.MENGARINI@delphi.com>
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Will Mengarini <MENGARINI@delphi.com> writes:
>
>I have a whole list of changes I want to make to the language,
>& it'll be a real pain to be reinventing a wheel unnecessarily.
>I get the feeling MS-DOS is treated with too much contempt by
>the Icon Project
I had this feeling for some time, too. The reality is, though
(IMHO), that the Icon Project is fairly small, and has limited
resources. They, unlike many academics, see service as an inte-
gral part of their work. Still, they don't have the resources to
pour money and development time into old, limited operating sys-
tems like MS-DOS - one that doesn't serve any of their research
goals.
I, for one, frequently compose software for my wife's office -
which is still riding on DOS and Windows. I'd be very interested
in anything you produce.
Thanks for informing us all of your work.
--
-Richard L. Goerwitz goer%midway@uchicago.bitnet
goer@midway.uchicago.edu rutgers!oddjob!ellis!goer