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To: JC who wrote (2411)5/23/1997 9:18:00 AM
From: Richard M. Smith   of 213177
 
JC,

>>> The beauty of Rhapsody is that the programming
>>> evniornment is portable.

So was Windows NT, but developers didn't seem to care. They
only are building WIN32 applications for X86. In addition, the
byte-sex problem of X86 vs PowerPC makes an X86 port of a
Rhapsody application more then just a simple recompile.

The last Apple WWDC I attend was about 4 years ago. Apple was
pushing the idea that the MacOS offered a portable API
for developers. The slogan was "Write-once, reap many".
The Star Trek project at Apple even promised the MacOS
running on top of DOS. The portability argument turned out
to be all smoke. I expect the same fate for a portable Rhapsody.
Thw WIN32 API owns the X86 space.

>>> An added bonus is that unlike Microsoft, Apple
>>> doesn't compete with it's developers

What about Claris?

Richard
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