What's interesting is that Microsoft used a company called MainSoft,
which has ported the Win32 API, various Microsoft classes/libraries
and technologies and the development environment to UNIX, including
Solaris, Irix, HP UX and AIX, and looks like future support for
Digital Unix.
There's no mention of Linux, BSD etc. on the MainSoft website. At
$15,000 per seat for the development environment, I'm not surprised -
the technology is obviously aimed at the large enterprise computing
Unix environment, not small shops or the academic environment.
Wouldn't it be ironic if Microsoft's APIs etc. became the standard
for cross-platform source code portability? This is something the
various Unix vendors, X/Open consortium etc. haven't been able to
figure out in over ten years of trying!
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> --
> Dave Michelson
> davem@ee.ubc.ca
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