From: noer@cygnus.com (Geoffrey Noer)
Subject: Re: ps and kill
8 Dec 1996 15:05:17 -0800
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Ben Constable wrote:
[...]
> While I am sending mail to the list, I would like to voice my opinion that
> a project like this one will only start to work if two versions are made -
> one for NT and one for 95. NT is too different to use the same source set.
> What do people think of this?

We will be keeping a common source base to keep things as sane as possible.
When the APIs are different in Windows 95, we have a code chunk for each OS
and then run the appropriate one at runtime.  As the project progresses,
some NT specific functionality may be implemented that Win 95 folks will
miss out on (security-related stuff mostly?).

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Geoffrey Noer
noer@cygnus.com
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