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In article <3vman7$hri@itsmail1.hamilton.edu>,
jmalloy@itsmail1.hamilton.edu (Joseph T. Malloy) wrote:
> >Sorry, you're right, the number of Win32 apps that can run on Win95 is
> >not zero.  but the number of apps specifically written for Win95 is
> >still zero.  
> Oh?  I've got a bunch and there's a big bunch of them on WINFTP at
> Indiana (it's a well known ftp site for many: winftp.cica.indiana.edu).

Almost no apps will be written specifically for Win95. Most of them
(except disk utils e.g.) will run under NT 3.51 without modification.
In fact, MS lists being able to run under NT as one of their Win95 logo
requirements...

This will not make IBM's life easier. If they decide to support Win32, then
various software developers will ask themselves: "Why make native OS/2 apps?"
If IBM decides *not* to support Win32, then the users will eventually ask
themselves: "Why not use Win95 or NT?"


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Rune Moberg (mobergru@oslonett.no) wrote:

: Almost no apps will be written specifically for Win95. Most of them
: (except disk utils e.g.) will run under NT 3.51 without modification.
: In fact, MS lists being able to run under NT as one of their Win95 logo
: requirements...

Which is why Win'95 is merely a transitional OS.  No doubt MS will port 
all the features to NT and eventually dump Win'95 and the 16-bit handicap 
once and for all.  By that time people won't be screaming about having to 
have 16 megs of ram and the P6(7,8...) will be able to operate at full speed.

Apple has the perfect opportunity to be up and running native RISC 
Copland/Gershwin by then.  Hopefully before then.

Unless they decide to expend their resources on Pippin and Newton instead  :>
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                                             ckoller@netcom.com

Craig Koller (ckoller@netcom.com) wrote:
[snipt]
: Apple has the perfect opportunity to be up and running native RISC 
: Copland/Gershwin by then.  Hopefully before then.

: Unless they decide to expend their resources on Pippin and Newton instead  :>


Pippin has excited every computer salesman that I've described it to.

Newton is STILL the most popular PDA on the market, with several 3rd 
party licensees


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Lawson English (english@primenet.com) wrote:

: Pippin has excited every computer salesman that I've described it to.

: Newton is STILL the most popular PDA on the market, with several 3rd 
: party licensees

I love the idea of both, and do own a Newton (I bought used from somebody 
else who gave up on it...)   But the Newton was ballyhooed at a time when 
the Mac itself was proving a flaccid performance competitor to the 
Windows PC.  And Pippin is being touted as a game machine, using the Mac 
OS which has been accused as being a toy... I'll probably buy one, but I 
do hope that Apple's priorities don't cost the main concerns of the company.

On a related note, it's the same Pippin mentality that seems to be 
pushing Kaleida's ScriptX as a game creation environment rather than a 
powerful application language, which it truly seems to be.

Anyway, blah...
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                                             ckoller@netcom.com

ckoller@netcom.com (Craig Koller) writes:

>: Newton is STILL the most popular PDA on the market, with several 3rd 
>: party licensees

>I love the idea of both, and do own a Newton (I bought used from somebody 
>else who gave up on it...)   But the Newton was ballyhooed at a time when 
>the Mac itself was proving a flaccid performance competitor to the 
>Windows PC.  And Pippin is being touted as a game machine, using the Mac 

The Newton was marketed wrong. Apple was trying to sell it as a yuppie toy -
sort of an electronic rolodex/dayrunner replacement. Instead, the Newton is
a powerful tool for vertical market applications in locations where even a
laptop computer is impractical. With bar code readers and other devices, the
Newton is one of the best data collection tools available (with the proper
software ;-).
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>On a related note, it's the same Pippin mentality that seems to be 
>pushing Kaleida's ScriptX as a game creation environment rather than a 
>powerful application language, which it truly seems to be.
>
>Anyway, blah...
>-- 
>                                             ckoller@netcom.com


Unfortunately that seems true. But I have never seen the Pippin. Is it 
Vapor Hardware? When does it come out?

what is ScriptX? I have never seen it.
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