Windows XP (which is currently the only Win64 OS if you buy that version, I believe) was made to be fully backwards compatible with Win32 specifications. Only time will tell if this is true. This SHOULD allow for people to use the Win32 namespace for a while before switching up to a Win64, or whatever.
-----Original Message----- From: drieux To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 5/10/02 7:06 AM Subject: Re: win32 specification and API On Friday, May 10, 2002, at 04:45 , Jenda Krynicky wrote: > No. Win32 means it's meant for 32 bit Microsoft Windows systems > : Win95, Win98, WinME, WinNT, Win2k, WinXP, ... > > While there might be some modules whose name starts with > Win32 that work on other OSes, it's very unlikely. And not > recomended. > > Jenda thanks, that had been my working assumption - but it's this problem of sorting out which parts of what goes into a 'windows system' deal with the GUI, the standard construct of a kernel - as would be used in other OS's - and all of that... And the general issues in that space that are less clear to me about how they organize their coding solutions. Given that Sun and Others have transitional API's from the 32-bit to 64-bit - most of which is transparent if you started with portable underlying code - unlike the recent problem proposed here where the 'make' of a FOO::BAR module fails if perl is built for 64 bit.... So will there be a Win64??? ciao drieux --- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
