Further PERQ Emulator progress (and a download!)

[Zane H. Healy]

At 10:38 AM -0700 7/3/08, Josh Dersch wrote:
>Dave McGuire wrote:
>>On Jul 3, 2008, at 9:56 AM, Jules Richardson wrote:
>>>>Includes all you need to get going.  You'll need a Windows 
>>>>machine with .NET Framework 2.0.  (Yes, I hear the jeering from 
>>>>the peanut gallery.  Sorry I didn't write this for your OS.  If 
>>>>you want to help with a Mono port when I get this thing more 
>>>>finished, let me know :))
>>>
>>>:-)
>>>
>>>Is it written in such a way that a port will be easy? (if it 
>>>*needs* .NET, maybe not! :-)
>>
>>   That's the whole point of .NET.  Proprietary lock-in is the only 
>>reason Microsoft is in business today.  Sleazy, but very effective.
>In the case of .NET, there's the whole Mono initiative 
>(http://www.mono-project.com/Main_Page) which is an open source .NET 
>runtime on top of your favorite unix variants.  C# and the CLR are 
>openly specified (ECMA/ISO).  There's no particular reason that 
>PERQemu couldn't be compiled under Mono, but I haven't tried it.

We've used Mono at work in production for several years now.  The 
crazy thing being, I've been the one building new versions of Mono, 
even though I've not been writing anything in C#.  Having said that, 
I've been working on learning C# the last couple weeks, and quite 
honestly rather like what I see.  I'm rapidly starting to consider C# 
and .NET as the best reason for having a Windows box.  I've installed 
Mono on my G5, and the main problem I see with .NET, Mono, or 
Portable.NET, is that none of them run on OpenVMS.  Using a language 
that doesn't support OpenVMS is a personal problem for me.

Zane


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