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To: soup who wrote (668)12/28/1996 1:27:00 AM
From: Dave von Hausen   of 213177
 
soup,

Thanks for the info - I would like to read the MacWorld article
when I get a chance.

Currently in OpenStep, a run time environment is needed
to give OpenStep apps some of it's flexibility. Also the core objects
used to build apps will take up alot of space in the executables unless
they are in a shared library on disk. It appears to be implied from your
statements of the article, that this run time environment (and core
objects) will be available to all users on both Intel and Apple H/W.
Since this may not be already on the user's computer, a vendor
will presummably be licensed to ship the run time environment with
their products (possibly for free). The point is that Apple may want
an additional revenue stream from each of it's developers by licensing
the runtime environment to them. It may be a mistake for them to do
that since it takes a cut from Apple's vendors. They won't like that.

Another related thing is that Next has fat binaries or executables.
That allows a single executable to run on all supported H/W. So
the developer can create and distribute a single executable regardless
of whether the user is using an Intel computer or some other supported
computer. Another benefit to developers - if they keep it.

Dave
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