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In article <mcox-ya02408000R0305980946240001@newsource.ihug.co.nz>,
mcox@ihug.co.nz (Martin Cox) wrote:

> In article <garyz-0205981222220001@cx42105-a.irvn1.occa.home.com>,
> garyz@chromaconcepts.com (Gary Zuercher) wrote:
> 
> >Something tells me Rhapsody is going to change a lot of developer thinking
> >when it becomes possible to write code once and easily recompile it for
> >almost any platform.
> 
> Ah, but that requires the PC owner to actually _have_ Rhapsody (or the
> multi-hued box under Windows) which isn't likely to take a large enough
> percentage of the market to convince game companies (IMHO).
> 
> Most PC users have enough trouble understanding Windows, let alone another
> OS on top of it...


Developers do need to have Rhapsody (at least for now), but end users can
run "Yellow Box" applications on Windows 95/NT. (In fact, OpenStep has
worked that way for several years already.) All they need is the
appropriate libraries (DLLs) which developers will be able to ship free
with the application. It's the same as requiring ActiveX, for instance. In
fact, rumor has it that Microsoft _may_ even bundle the DLLs with Windows
98 and NT 5.

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MATTHEW VAUGHAN
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http://www.best.com/~matthewv/
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