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In <1993Jan06.222856.24095@microsoft.com> blakeco@microsoft.com (Blake Coverett) writes:

>In article <C0EKBM.IC9@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
>>In article <1993Jan05.061510.21021@microsoft.com> blakeco@microsoft.com (Blake Coverett) writes:
>>>Nope.  This would be prohibitively expensive.  There is an Intel emulator,
>>>but that is only for DOS and Win16 apps.  Win32 apps and the the OS itself
>>>are all compiled for the target platform.
>>
>>So I take this to mean that you wouldn't be able to buy, say, Excel 
>>6 in a shrink wrap and run it on your choice of platform? You'd need
>>to get Excel 6 (Intel) or Excel 6 (Alpha) depending on the machine you
>>own?

>I don't speak for any of our apps groups and I surely can't speak for other
>application vendors, but it would seem to me that there is an easy solution
>to this problem.  Ship a CD-ROM in the box with all the binaries on it and
>a license to use the one of your choice.  The vendor could optionally
>include floppies containing the Intel version but I would suspect that
>would fade over time just as shipping low-density floppies has.

>-Blake (subliminal message: CD-ROMs are a good thing)

Hey, Blake.  Wanna buy me a Cd-ROM drive?

[Vendors 'pushing' technology without regard to what the users are
doing is a BAD thing, generally.]

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