Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!camex!circus!kent From: kent@circus.camex.com (Kent Borg) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer Subject: Re: multi-platform revision control Keywords: rcs, unix, macintosh, ibm, projector, a/ux Message-ID: <1540@camex.COM> Date: 27 Sep 90 16:47:23 GMT References: Sender: news@Camex.COM Reply-To: kent@camex.com (Kent Borg) Organization: Camex Inc., Boston, MA Lines: 26 In article Reid Ellis writes: >PS: I heard that Microsoft has in-house software to handle [source code > control between platforms] (a) is it true? (b) are they planning on > selling it? I don't think they have what you are looking for, I don't think they are selling what they do have. Have you ever wondered why Microsoft applications look like they were not written by Macintosh users? They weren't. Apparently Word (and the other products out of Washington state at least) are written under MS-DOS. Microsoft has their own cross-development environment that they designed when the alternative was to use the Lisa as a cross-development environment. Since then, the rest of us have moved to the various native environments, but Microsoft has been perfecting their MS-DOS version; since 1984, the rest of us have been moving to Macs to program for Macs, but Microsoft has been using PCs. >Reid Ellis 264 Broadway Avenue, Toronto ON, M4P 1V9 Canada >rae@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu || rae%alias@csri.toronto.edu || +1 416 487 1383 -- Kent Borg internet: kent@camex.com AOL: kent borg H:(617) 776-6899 W:(617) 426-3577 "The prospect of their mass excites astrophysicists, who are always on the lookout for ways to make the universe heavier" -- The Economist, 9-22-90