Re: THE MOTHER OF ALL PBEM GAMES

From: Joseph Strout <jstrout@ucsd.edu>

Date: Sat, 05 Aug 1995 00:00:00 +0000

On Fri, 4 Aug 1995, mystro wrote:

> 	[ referring to VGA Planets ]
>
>      YES...it even support the Mac (with cheeze :) now. It ports to all
> os now. Pick up PHOST at any VGA-Planets FTP site.   ...

All OS?!?  I checked what claims to be the official PHOST WWW site, and
it supports: DOS, DEC Alpha AXP, i386 (BSDs, Linux, or Win32), HP-Pa
HP/UX, MeXT Mach, IBM RS/6000 AIX, Sun Solaris, SPARC SunOS, and DEC
Ultrix 5000.  The Mac OS is noticably absent (though there are probably
more Mac computers than HP/UX, Mach, AIX, AXP, and Ultrix combined).  It
looks like they ported it to every Unix-descended platform that can do
Xwindows, but I'd hardly call that "portable".

(The Mac isn't hard to program, folks -- I do it -- and it's easy,
because the toolbox has most of the code built right in.  That's why good
Mac programs are 3 MB, and Microsoft programs are 20 MB...)

Er, sorry, I don't want to start a religious battle.  Let's just say that
I won't be giving VGA Planets a try in the near future.

-- Joe Strout

References

Re: THE MOTHER OF ALL PBEM GAMES
Joseph Strout <jstrout@ucsd.edu>
Thu, 03 Aug 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: THE MOTHER OF ALL PBEM GAMES
cg@primenet.com (mystro)
Fri, 04 Aug 1995 00:00:00 +0000

Referenced By

Re: THE MOTHER OF ALL PBEM GAMES
Joseph Strout <jstrout@ucsd.edu>
Thu, 03 Aug 1995 00:00:00 +0000
Re: THE MOTHER OF ALL PBEM GAMES
cg@primenet.com (mystro)
Fri, 04 Aug 1995 00:00:00 +0000