1. Re: portability...serious NEW ground
Norm,
Unless you want to be labeled the Gypsy Rose Lee of this forum, a little
specifity would go a long way towards giving you some legitimacy. Step out
from behind the fans and give it to us straight. Lots of very legitimate
questions have been asked and should be answered swiftly. Without some
existing infrastructure(compilers, API's, GUI's) getting Euphoria to any
such platform is a long stretch. Obviously, you think that it has some
relationship to what you are planning unless you are just recruiting. If
that is the case, I have to wonder why you did not take it offline to those
your are interested in. A major project could enormously benefit Euphoria as
a whole if, in the process, facilities are made available to the general
Euphoria users. If it sucks away talent and time to a commercial project
with no benefit returned to the Euphoria community, it probably doesn't
belong on this forum. I stand to be corrected or amended by others with
greater senority here or by RDS, but this is my opinion.
Everett L.(Rett) Williams
rett at gvtc.com
On Fri, 5 Nov 1999 10:15:49 -0500, Norm Goundry <bonk1000 at HOTMAIL.COM>
wrote:
>Yes, it is true that much of the 'portability' issue is old ground, and has
>been gone over many times before, but since it currently is such a hot
>topic, I too wish to maybe raise the temperature a bit more if I may. I
>have said this before recently, but I will say it again, and now put a bit
>of a twist on the question:
>
>I am being funded, among other things, to carry out a mandate which I
>pressed my backers for, and they agree for me to do. This is to develop a
>usable basis on several of the Game Consoles (Nintendo, Sega, Sony) so that
>they can be accessed as something higher than 'embedded Thin Client'
>machines, but better and more sane than Windows CE, i.e., a very abstract
>open-system OS which will straddle the various RISC processors of these
>units. I intend to do this with the help of several 'gamers', and I AM
>starting this in the second week of this month (Nov 99). This is a very
>serious project, hoping among other things, to help widen some of the
>cracks in the PC-only mentality, which unfortunately, is very evident even
>in the enlightened discussions of this, the EU forum.
>
>What I am asking now is, not can it be done, but how much will it cost? I
>am going to have to do this one way or the other.
>
>Discussion and feedback and flames welcome.
>
>Norm
