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Chris Alemany wrote:
>
> On 7-Jun-05, at 10:12 AM, C. D. Rok wrote:
>
>> Agreed. One more thing to do in that new environment: provide a
>> minimalist Win32 API...
>
> Aaahhh... the fabled "Yellow Box". I swear.. I feel like I'm in a
> Back to the Future movie...including an Intel demo of the shoot-em-up
> game Quake
>
Interesting - but I'm not thinking about either running win32
binaries of games and consumer-market apps (don't know much
about the economies of those) or new development targeting
multiple platforms; I'm thinking about high-end professional
apps, typically developed in large organizations, heavy on
industry-specific functionality, where the user (or someone close)
has the source.
I know a lot of such users that are very much motivated to
migrate to OSX (simply because it's a better OS, way better
'net-connected OS, many of them have *nix exposure and experience)
but can't, since they have one or more in-house developed Win32
apps. GUI in such apps is trivial, but to replace all those
event-driven callbacks and display paraphenalia and in addition
deal with endian issues is just beyond the practical right now.
Make source-porting of such applications to OSX easy and you
create a whole ne class of "migrants".
cdr
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