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- From: chris@cad.gatech.edu (Chris McClellen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: PRO/CON on Mirrors (was Re: AmiPro for OS/2)
- Date: 24 Jan 1993 13:17:16 -0500
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, CAE/CAD Lab
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- References: <1993Jan22.141835.1@violet.ccit.arizona.edu> <1993Jan22.233940.1843@midway.uchicago.edu> <1993Jan23.150321.1@milori.ccit.arizona.edu> <1993Jan24.001304.19923@wam.umd.edu> <1993Jan24.041730.4232@netcom.com>
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- In <1993Jan24.041730.4232@netcom.com> xtifr@netcom.com (Chris Waters) writes:
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- >In <1993Jan24.001304.19923@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
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- >>In article <1993Jan23.150321.1@milori.ccit.arizona.edu> f67709907@milori.ccit.arizona.edu (Greg Franklin) writes:
- >>>In article <1993Jan22.233940.1843@midway.uchicago.edu>, sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
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- [ Yamanari says Mirrors = evil, Mr. Waters doesn't care ]
-
- I agree with Chris Waters' statement.
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- Mirrors may make a product perform a little slower, but I don't
- think you should judge a product soley on its API. If the
- program is great, so what if it uses Mirrors.
-
- On the other hand, if they company is just recompiling their
- Windows software, and is leaving in all the kludges they had to
- put in to get their app to do something that windows doesnt do
- easily, I would probably be upset. It would mean that the app
- is probably slow, and very buggy. If they don't want to
- rewrite the interface thats fine, but atleast tune the engine
- to purr under Os/2.
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- Overall, if the product is a mirrors product, I don't care
- as long as it works well. If the product stinks (ie, very slow,
- etc..), I'd probably go find another instead of it. If its
- the ONLY game in town, I'll just wait.
-
- Which reminds me -- I saw a product demo (not going to name the
- product) which was "ported" from windows to OS/2 2.0 -- however,
- it was a 16bit app, and it used mirrors. It was the first
- and only product at the time for OS/2 [this was a while back] of
- its kind. There were no plans of its competitors to hit the OS/2
- market.
-
- In a nutshell, the program was awful. They demoed it on a 486/33
- that had 16 megs of memory, and a fast HD (5ms I believe).
- It was so slow, I wanted to yawn in the demoer's face. It swapped
- like crazy, even on the simplest operations, like trying to just
- open a small file. It was probably one of the worst products I've
- seen for OS/2, yet, it is a major tool in the windows world.
- To add insult to injury, the price was hundreds of dollars
- greater than the windows version, and there was no upgrade path. You
- had to buy the Os/2 version in full even if you owned the windows
- version. When asked about this, they simply said "We have
- no competition, so you pay our price, or don't get it." I remember
- those words vividly.
-
- Basically, it seems that the product was just a recompile of the
- windows version, using mirrors, probably with little or no
- modifications to the internal engine. Then they shipped this
- crap off to market. In that case, I saw Mirrors as evil, because
- a company came in, recompiled, then shipped it, because
- they had no competition, and the program reaked.
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