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Sent: Friday, September 29, 2000 11:01 PM
Subject: [REBOL] REBOL, AMIGA/TAO & MICRO$OFT DOT-NET (Long!)
> If REBOL truly are independent then having /View & later /Multimedia
> available across all & every platform is going to lead to having to
> maintain a truly enormous code base to cover every range of
> CPU + OS + Graphics Layer.
>
> Think about the whole multitude of possible permutations & combinations.
>
> A subset might be as follows;
>
> Intel 86 + MS Windows + GDI / Win32's
> PPC + Mac OS X + Aqua
> Intel 86 + BE OS + Be Media Layer
> PPC + BE OS + Be Media Layer
> Intel 86 + Linux + XFree86
> Sparc + Linux + XFree86
> PPC + Linux + XFree86
> Intel 86 or Sparc or PPC etc + Linux + MicroWindows
> Intel 86 or Sparc or PPC etc + Linux + QT Embedded
> Every CPU + Tao Elate + Amiga Foundation Layers
> Every CPU + QNX + Photon Micro GUI
RT would be just insane to do so. Noone can imho handle so many versions. At
that time, I believe we will be using real componentised system, so you will
have just one .exe per platform, with set of loadable/unloadable components
available ...
-pekr-
