Re: Swarm -> Windows-NT...

[Sven N. Thommesen]

At 05:48 PM 5/17/97 -0600, Glen wrote:

>But, I think the gains we will make in the broadening of our 
>user community to include the WinNT world *and* the Java
>world outweighs the perf. hit.  And, hopefully, using Java
>for our GUI will open up new possibilities for remote execution
>and performance optimizations later on.
>
>Any flaws in my reasoning?
>
>glen

No, I happen to agree with you that a broader user base is a Good Thing.
And the performance concern may be alleviated somewhat as soon as the
networked version of Swarm is completed :-) [As well as by the constant
improvement in CPU capabilities.]

I have one concern, however: don't you dare make Swarm so easy to use that
my employer no longer is in need of my expert knowledge of sundry computer
arcana! I might have to go get a real job ... [grin]

Those interested in NT might take a look at
<http://www.softway.com/OpenNT/home.htm>.

The company is porting unix to run as a separate sub-system under NT, and
seem to be fairly far along in the process. While the product is currently
based on the Microsoft C/C++ compiler, they are porting gcc for release
'soon'. As for objective-C, they said that "Objective C will not be
supported for the first release of gcc for OpenNT, but will be considered
for a future release." Whatever that means ...

Cheers,
Sven




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