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| Authored by: nsomos on Sunday, July 01 2012 @ 10:03 PM EDT |
Please post corrections here.
It may be helpful to summarize corrections in the posts title.
Kerrekshuns -> Corrections
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| Authored by: bugstomper on Sunday, July 01 2012 @ 10:28 PM EDT |
Please stay off topic in these threads
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| Authored by: bugstomper on Sunday, July 01 2012 @ 10:44 PM EDT |
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| Authored by: Ian Al on Tuesday, July 03 2012 @ 03:16 AM EDT |
Frankenburg testified that PerfectOffice was not released for other than Windows
operating systems. However, we know that was because of the anti-competitive
actions of Microsoft. WordPerfect worked as middleware in its own right and
Garry Gibb testified about the extend of the cross-platform work going on
leading to the Windows 95 version.
Q: Now, when you went to work
on the engine team, was the engine team working on 16-bit or 32-bit operating
systems?
A: Both. So we worked on 16- and 32-bit. Everything was
32-bit except for Windows. The Windows 3.1 platform was just 16-bit, but we
built cross-platforms. So as a developer we would sit down, every one of the
developers on the engine team had two computers. So they would have one computer
that would be, for example, a NEX computer or OS2 computer, and next to it they
would have a Windows machine, so they would have both.
So they would
build their code. They would test it on the two platforms before they would
check it into a common depository and then work across all the platforms. It was
tested every night.
Q: Is it fair to say it began -- before you began
work, the engine team began work on the 32-bit product for Windows that you had
already been working on 32-bit operating systems?
A: Oh, yeah.
Q: Throughout?
A: I think probably more than half the code, and it
was all 32-bit because, like I said, it was cross-platform. And everything under
the Windows was 32-bit. So it was certainly 32-bit.
Microsoft say
that the complaints about Windows 95 were not made by Frankenburg at the meeting
with Dave Miller. However, the Frankenburg complaint was made via the corporate
counsel because it was such an important issue.---
Regards
Ian Al
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