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From: imp@boulder.parcplace.com (Warner Losh)
Subject: Re: Wine status March 11, 1994
Message-ID: <CMzqCK.MMC@boulder.parcplace.com>
Keywords: Wine Windows NetBSD FreeBSD Linux
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Date: Mon, 21 Mar 1994 01:19:32 GMT
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In article <2mfun0$j4d@universe.digex.net> philp@universe.digex.net
(Phil Perucci) writes: 
>I understand the Win32 API (one of it's incarnations) will be sort of
>an industry standard, at least on Microsoft and Unix platforms. 

The Win32 API is not a standard on Unix.  OSF/Motif is the standard
API for C programmers on Unix.  I don't think that OSF will go quietly
into that good night, now that they are the de facto standard API.

The marketing hype that you read may happen.  But then again, it may
not.

Warner

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Warner Losh		imp@boulder.parcplace.COM	ParcPlace Boulder
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