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- From: Clifford T. Matthews <ctm@ardi.com>
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- Subject: Re: QuickTime ? (was Re: True Type Support?)
- Date: 22 Apr 1996 23:19:44 -0600
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- >>>>> "Carmine" == Carmine Chiancone <chiancon@sc2a.unige.ch> writes:
- In article <4l4t6j$o4b@uni2f.unige.ch> chiancon@sc2a.unige.ch (Carmine Chiancone) writes:
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- Carmine> In an article, Clifford T. Matthews (ctm@ardi.com) wrote:
- >> (...) In a similar vein we'll probably get QuickTime to work
- >> (it's included with many programs) before we implement our own
- >> version of it. Beyond getting INITs and CDEVs to work well
- >> enough to run ATM and QuickTime we *may* work on our own
- >> support for the features that ATM and QuickTime present, but
- >> that would have to be done by a separate team of engineers, a
- >> team that we don't yet have.
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- Carmine> Would it be possible to use QuickTime for Windows (in
- Carmine> Intel 80x86 executable code) in Executor/DOS, to give Mac
- Carmine> appl. running in Executor the features they need from
- Carmine> QuickTime without having to emulate (time consuming at
- Carmine> the execution level) QuickTime for Mac, neither having to
- Carmine> re-implement (time consuming at development level)
- Carmine> QuickTime for Executor.
-
- Carmine> But may be I'm missing something. It will propably be
- Carmine> easier to use QuickTime for Windows when there is an
- Carmine> Executor/Windows version.
-
- Right. Writing "glue" for Executor/Windows so that Mac QuickTime
- calls get translated to Windows QuickTime calls is something that we
- think is doable without too much work, although until we actually get
- our feet wet we won't know for sure.
-
- Carmine> Needless to say: as almost everybody who tried Executor,
- Carmine> I find it very impressive, even with the current
- Carmine> limitations.
-
- Thank you. We're trying to expand ARDI so we'll have more engineers
- so we can make Executor *much* better in the coming six months.
-
- Carmine> Carmine Chiancone Uni GE - Chimie Organique
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-
- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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