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To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
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Subject: Re: Beta Testers For Applixware? 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 07 Dec 1998 23:04:40 PST."
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Date: Mon, 07 Dec 1998 23:52:20 -0800
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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
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> Applixware should run with the compat-22 kit installed, if not without.
> The goal is to make it applicable to the widest possible installed base.

Again, it's far too easy to say which binary formats we'll be
supporting and I find such speculation at this time to be just a tad
premature.  Given the ever-changing nature of this biz and the rather
unspecific nature of the date which we know the Applixware "port" will
be completed by, we may very well decide to do both a.out and ELF
versions by then, or perhaps a static as well as dynamic a.out version
which just works everywhere and doesn't require *any* external libs.
Not having had the chance to measure the differences in performance
characteristics between the various options, we don't even know what
constitutes our full range of practical alternatives and debating it
now only risks a lot of energy being expended over issues which may
become moot or redundant by the time we ship.

- Jordan

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