[MUD-Dev] Re: [IDEAS] Starting from scratch

[Nathan F Yospe]

On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, T. Alexander Popiel wrote:

:In message:  <Pine.HPP.3.91.980806113706.29817B-100000 at emu.micro.ti.com>
:             Holly Sommer <hsommer at micro.ti.com> writes:

:>On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, T. Alexander Popiel wrote:

:>> This is, unfortunately, non-portable... 

:>Eh? We've gotten it to work under both Linux and BSDi with minimal fuss.

:I guess I have higher standards for portability; I support many flavors
:of unix (including Linux, BSDi, AIX, SunOS, Solaris, HPUX, AIX, and ULTRIX),
:as well as Windows95, WindowsNT, OS/2, and Macintosh.

:Notably, the Windows ports have to deal with a non-POSIX universe, since
:in the POSIX environs for Windows, you can't access things like the
:Service Manager...

*growl*

:I don't think we got the live reboot thang to work under Mac, either,
:but I'm not sure, having not touched that directly.

Well... I could swing it, with some work, under Open Transport... I haven't
the foggiest if it would work under the older API. Seriously, though... why
bother? If it's running background like that, either wait another month and
buy MacOS X Server (formerly Rhapsody, and an awesome port of NeXT's OS, if
a little Macified) (Please, please, please Apple, don't overprice it! I can
*not* afford it if you do, and this beta seed's not enough!) or wait a year
more for MacOS X - either way, you have a just-under-POSIX complient OS and
BSD based unix... and can compile the BSD port to the Mac environment. That
just-under bit... I still haven't found out what part of POSIX it *doesn't*
comply with. I'll let you know when I do.
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Nathan F. Yospe - Aimed High, Crashed Hard, In the Hanger, Back Flying Soon
Jr Software Engineer, Textron Systems Division (On loan to Rocketdyne Tech)
(Temporarily on Hold) Student, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Physics Dept.
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