Re: Portability


Tue, 30 May 95 12:32:01 GMT

In article <badger.801343501@phylo>,
Jonathan Badger <badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu> wrote:
>In article <3p5dpa$7u7@newsbf02.news.aol.com> jeffjetton@aol.com
>(JeffJetton) writes:
>
>>First, on the issue of portability, I think requiring that the programs
>>run on PCs and Macs is good enough, which pretty much means that either
>>TADS or Inform be allowed. If the game can't run on, say, a Timex-Sinclair
>>1000, then so be it. Not only do PCs and Macs cover about 900f the
>>platforms used for playing IF out there, they, in all likelihood, cover
>>990f the platforms used for *creating* IF, which is what this is about
>>anyway.
>
>Well, since you are from American On-line, your ignorance may be
>excusable, but I'd say close to a majority of us on Usenet prefer UNIX
>to any bitty box O/S, and TADS and Inform run on most UNIX systems, while
>other systems don't.