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To: J R KARY who wrote (8377)	2/10/1998 7:27:00 PM
From: BillHoo	of 213178

<<it's simply file translation for word processing, powerpoint or spreadsheet files " >> <<Makes sense as data file transfer would be a requirement for any mixed vendor platform . I suspect as" MSFT is the author , that Windows has this feature ?>> Yes, later versions of Office 95 have this feature to translate and read Mac Word and Excel files, Powerpoint was Read Only. Still has to be done on a PC formatted floppy though. Mac can read and write to PC formatted floppies via PC Exchange Control panel. I don't think that's such new feature. As for the NYC vendor, it's probably a compiler of sorts. Those have been around for a while. Again, a compiled version may not take full advantage of the processor speed that a native programmed application would. A compiler would still have to translate "What's a .dll?" in relation to the Mac OS that's something like a system extension. Then the compiler would have to answer "Where does this .dll go to once it's translated into some kind of Mac OS system extension?" The answer "The extensions folder" "What is that and where is it?" "In the system folder!" "What does it control in there?" "It controls port ZC35522667586 on the PowerPC chip!" "What is that in relation to port 348683480000 on the Intel processor?" etc. etc. etc. Even at high megahertz speeds this would still be a very precarious process. What if there were no Mac equivalents to the PC code? This would certainly cause a crash of the application or system. I'm pretty sure MSFT insisted that it was programmed from scratch for the Mac. Isn't that why they hired those 100 Mac programmers in Oct 1996? Bill_H

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