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In article <4k3u61$js3@yikes.winc.com>, 
delozier@aristar.com (Gregory S. DeLozier) writes:
> In article <4jt6s0$pem@neptune.ethz.ch>, oswald@inf.ethz.ch writes:
> 
>> [...resources] 
>> are just too limited to port System 3 to a lot of platforms and
>> _support_ it there, i.e. keep it up to date for every release. The only
>> official version in the future will be the PC native version, probably
>> along with versions for MS Windows and Mac. 
> 
> By "PC native" version, do you mean "native on top of DOS", "native
> on top of the bare PC", or something else entirely?
> 
> I just wrote Wojtek some stuff about how nice it was to have my S3
> code running all over the place. If your group doesn't see any future
> for the other ports of S3, do you think that
> 
> 	1) Your state-of-the-art system will continue to run
> 	    code written to today's S3 systems, and
> 
> 	2) People (such as Hannes Marias) will continue to 
> 	    develop things for these other platforms from time to time?
> 
> I don't have any particular problem with your decision to support 
> primarily one platform; I'm just trying to figure out where to put my 
> resources and how to best utilize all this S3 code I've got up and
> running...
> 
> Thanks for your comments.
> 
> -greg

  That is the point. I also was thinking about my own plans and which way 
to go with my development. Everybody seems to advocate Gadgets, but you 
know -- portability is the prime concern. It would be terrific if 
Prof. Gutknecht group could strike some helthy balance between novelty 
and the ability to actually use that novelty in practice. It would be 
a pity if the only way to know your new developments would be to read 
Postscript files from your server. I would love to use Gadgets, but 
perspectives for future are very important.

BTW, if we need to convince your boss, we can perhaps write some e-mails
to him? A few dozens of e-mails might convince him that a good way 
to disseminate new ideas could be to put them on the desktops of researchers 
worldwide. He does not seem to read Usenet, does he? (Is it not interesting, 
that the originator of the net-aware System does not seem to frequent the net 
himself :-)

Wojtek