Subj : Re: Pascal & OS2
To : Jasen Betts
From : Scott Adams
Date : Wed Oct 27 2004 08:43 pm
-=> Quoting Jasen Betts to Scott Adams <=-
JB> @MSGID: 3:640/1042 416c1be7
JB> Hello Scott.
JB> 07 Oct 04 22:19, you wrote to Sean Dennis:
SA> -=> Quoting Sean Dennis to IB Joe <=-
SA> Correct. Delphi requires API calls that only windows does.
SA> Its not like converting BP which can be tweaked. I would
SA> shiver on converting delphi to os/2. Unless os/2 has the
SA> same basic api calls it would be a nightmare. :)
JB> IIRC a third party managed to get the quake binary to run under os/2,
JB> so the difference isn't insurmountable.
Yeah but I figured Quake was C alot easier port than pascal is
to port to other languages :)
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