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From: francis@arthur.uchicago.edu (Francis Stracke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: multi-platform revision control
Keywords: rcs, unix, macintosh, ibm, projector, a/ux
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Date: 30 Sep 90 18:32:52 GMT
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In article <1540@camex.COM> kent@camex.com (Kent Borg) writes:
>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

Not only are they cross-developing; they're not even compiling into
native code (as of Word 3, anyway).  Word 3 has lots of PCOD resources,
with stuff in them that looks like strings that belongs in code, from
which I infer (am I right?) that they're using UCSD P-System.

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