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From: "Marin David Condic" <marin.condic.auntie.spam@pacemicro.com>
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Subject: Re: Ada The Best Language?
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 13:54:29 -0400
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Well, to be comparing apples to apples - can you take an EXE compiled on
Sun/Unix and run it on PC/Linux and have it work? That appears to be the
test standard for portability between the various versions of Windows,
right?

Or in the other direction, how portable is an MS/DOS program written in
(pick your language) if you compile it under WindowsNT with the appropriate
compiler?

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"Ted Dennison" <dennison@telepath.com> wrote in message
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>
> Actually, that's rarely the case. I think Win3.1 has a different exe
format than
> the rest. Even the Win32 OS'es have quite a few library differences
between
> them. If there are examples of this, they must be pretty simple programs.
> Certianly none of the 50 or so PC games I own have this capability. I do
have a
> few that would work (on some platforms better than others) if you threw
out
> Win3.1 though.
>
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