#: 12337 S12/OS9/68000 (OSK)
    20-Sep-91  17:13:57
Sb: #12046-OSK
Fm: Paul K. Ward 73477,2004
To: Ed Gresick 76576,3312 (X)

Ed,

Thank you for your thoughts on software compatibility.

My first reaction is that OSK will soon have a national visibility due to CD-I
and that pressure will be on all of us to make hardware and software choices to
conform to national standards. By "standard", unfortunately, I cannot mean only
ANSI or ISO standards -- often it must be DE FACTO standards.

Termcap compatibility is a help. Other considerations include ANSI C compiler
availability to ease porting to/from UNIX, Athena compatibility,
UUCP/C-BourneShell/UNIX-command set compatibility, a set of aliases to help DOS
users, Point-and-click environment when consoles are required, with a C library
and C style guide that allows the same program to run on terminals when
necessary, and so on.

Keep up the good work.

Best,

Paul

IMS