Re: Portability (was Inform Competition ?!!)


25 May 95 19:40:33 GMT

neilg@newsserver.sfu.ca (Neil K. Guy) writes:

>badger@phylo.life.uiuc.edu (Jonathan Badger) writes:

>>Well, since you are from American On-line, your ignorance may be
>>excusable, but I'd say close to a majority of us on Usenet prefer UNIX
>>to any bitty box O/S, and TADS and Inform run on most UNIX systems, while
>>other systems don't.

> Hm. That's not the friendliest remark I've ever read.

> I fear r.a.i-f is degenerating into one of those pointless religious
>OS wars of which Usenet is so often vulnerable...

No, not really. It's just when some AOL newbie makes a statement like
"990f all people interested in interactive fiction use a Mac or PC", it
really *needs* to be corrected.