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Mac/Win crosspltform Dev

    14-Mar-94 20:49:05
Fm: allen joslin 72632,2726
To: Neil Ticktin/MacTech Mag 71333,1065
>>I believe that most Macintosh developers are not interested in >>developing commodities — otherwise they would have been developing >>for Windows. Macintosh is about doing things better >> — not like everyone else. Got that right!! And it works that way (sort of) in the Windows world also! A friend (who does that stuff) told me that the word is: "If you want to make money use Microsoft, if you want to develop software use Boreland". >>Apple is going to be getting rid of the Shared Library >>Manager in favor of SOM (an object manager) from IBM. >>OpenDoc will make this move in one of its next prerelease versions. I was really impressed with the ASLM, although I didn't get to use it, compared to DLLs. I liked the thought of DLLs that could be used with C++. Will DSOM work with C++? Al;