Re: [MacPerl] Re: fork (was: Microsoft funds Perl)

[Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com>]

At 09:42 -0400 6/16/99, Richard Gordon wrote:
> At 19:52 -0400 6/15/1999, Chris Nandor wrote:
>>The idea indeed is that the work being done for NT to get fork running may
>>be applicable to MacPerl (and VMS) in the future.  Maybe.  Matthias might
>>have more to say, but I doubt anyone will have more to say of substance
>>until Sarathy et al finish it for NT.
>
> Wouldn't all of this stuff become available under OS X without
> getting involved in emulation schemes? My assumption is that if
> MacPerl undergoes a rewrite for OS X, it would take advantage of any
> native features of the OS and I further assume that fork() etc are
> native features of OS X.

Maybe. Eventually. When Mac OS X is "final".

But that still won't help people who aren't using Mac OS X, and that's
gonna be a lot of people. Especially when Apple keeps "rasing the bar"
regarding which hardware OS X will run on :-(
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