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Subject: Re: Windows for Amiga?? Maybe!!
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Date: 24 Nov 90 02:19:28 GMT
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> In article <1990Nov21.170108.18455@maytag.waterloo.edu>, Eric Giguere writes:

> Other problems:  Windows is more than just a presentation interface, it's
> also pretty much an operating system in itself.  To guarantee portability,
> all this extra stuff would need to ported as well.  On the Mac and the Amiga
> the OS is mostly in ROM, and both OS's are quite different from what Windows
> supports.
>
> Nope, I just don't see it happening...

Neither do I after all windows sits on top of a single tasking OS and can do
some things that on an Amiga would probably cause quite a few problems.
However something like a standard interface developer that works the
same across multiple platforms and is able to generate the code for that
platform.  Then the only extra time would be that necessary to write the
code that does the input and output for that platform.  Just another Idea
to throw around :-)