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    23-Oct-90  19:10:39
Sb: #7684-#OSK Software
Fm: Frank Hogg 70310,317
To: Bob van der Poel 76510,2203 (X)

Bob,

Me, act as a clearing house. I think that those kind of details could be
addressed later. What we need now is discussion especially from developers on
what is needed. We must maintain compatibility between machines so developers
can work to better their products rather than wasting time making the same
product work on different platforms.

As to preventing members from working on projects, nothing of the kind. That
would inhibit creativity and reduce the quality of products. I also do not
think that several GUIs would be a problem IF they were compatible. The key is
for application software to run no matter what system it's on.

As for 'rules of software' I was thinking that they would be like OS9 is. That
is things like system calls etc would do the same thing on different machines.
These would seem to only apply to GUIs and windows but other areas may apply
also.

Lets keep this discussion going and get others to put their 3 cents in.
(Inflation, you know)

Frank

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