Re: Not "Satanism;" realism.

[Steve Cohen <stevecoh@mcs.com>]

Mitch Stone wrote:

> --- From a message sent by Eric M. Bennett on 1/3/99 11:44 AM ---
>
> >In other words... the PC market might be like the market for Unix
> >workstations.  Mutliple hardware architectures, multiple operating systems,
> >but a good degree of standard-based interoperability.
>
> I was thinking in terms of complex consumer items, like cars -- but now
> that you mention it, I'd say the Unix analogy fits very well. I suspect
> that if the computing universe was populated with a greater variety of
> hardware and OS choices, developers would be compelled to come up with
> practical methods of producing portable code, instead of focusing on the
> single most popular hardware/OS combination.
>
> Mitch Stone
> mstone@vc.net

Portable code?  Hell, given the current status, I'd gladly settle for portable
data!  There are of course, portable formats, but Microsoft isn't even giving
us data portablity between different versions of their programs.