Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 10:07:54 +0200 (EET) From: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee> To: Jake Hamby <jehamby@lightside.com> Cc: "'Christoph Kukulies'" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>, "'invalid opcode'" <coredump@nervosa.com>, "'jehamby@lightside.com'" <jehamby@lightside.com>, "'hackers@FreeBSD.ORG'" <hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Win32 (was:Re: Go SCSI! Big improvement...) Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960227100616.2001D-100000@haldjas.folklore.ee> In-Reply-To: <01BB042E.4636BDE0@hamby1.lightside.net>
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On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, Jake Hamby wrote: > >A point about which I must disagree... Win32 is not as good. Perhaps it > >will never be (just think about DOS - it *did* become better over the > >time of it's existence). If the things go on as they are now, IMHO > >FreeBSD will have better SMP support than Win32... > > It's VERY popular, though! :-) It has a lot of features from Unix (e.g. > Winsock, memory-mapped files, etc..) and features that Unix will never have > a standard for (e.g. context-sensitive hypertext help, unified printing > system, unified TrueType font system, OLE). Now I agree that, for example, Man? GNU Texinfo? Ever heard about Adobe Type 1? > OpenDoc is superior to OLE, but OLE has been around for several years now, > and OpenDoc is just coming out. The other problem is that you COULD put > all the features I mentioned into an X program (help, printing, fonts, > etc), but you'd have to either buy somebody else's code, or write your own, > and either way you end up spending way more time and/or money, and get a > program which looks very different from others of its kind. > > >Emulating another system is never as good as running in native mode, no > >matter how hard you try. How about making headers and libraries which > >would allow you to compile you win32 code for FreeBSD and X11 with little > >to no changes? It would allow all those shareware people list that their > >products are available for several platrorms, one of which is real unix :) > > As I mentioned, there is ALREADY a toolkit to do this called TWIN, from > Willows software (www.willows.com). You can compile Windows (and soon > Win32) programs to native code using GCC or any other compiler. Already it > is in a much better state than WINE, and it is free for non-commercial > development. This was one big reason for me to decide to learn Win32. > > ---Jake > > Sander
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