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From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen)
Subject: Re: Cygwin.dll and win32 stuff - windowing portability
Date: 1997/03/24
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In article <dewar.859218547@merv>, dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar) writes:
> Larry said
> 
> <<There is some movement trying to make "recordability" a "checklist"
> feature when purchasing Macintosh software.  If the typical customer
> for your application domain has adopted this attitude they will not
> be satisfied by less.>>
> 
> Sure I understand this, but realistically, it is going to be more and
> more the case that the *only* way that applications will arrive on the
> Mac is in some reasonably portable cross-platform form. We have all seen
> the trend of developers being reluctant to invest much special effort
> on the Mac, and that trend is pretty much bound to continue I fear!

Although I disagree with that, it is immaterial.  If I knew as much
about OS/2 as I do about the Macintosh, I could probably come up with
some equally non-portable concept.  As for X-Windows, consider the new
CDE support for preserving windowing system state on logout.  There are
other GUI environments which lack such a concept.  How many present
cross-GUI tools support that feature?

Larry