Subject: Re: [Free]DOS port?
From: Ancient Computers (arcadepreserv@hotmail.com)
Date: Thu Nov 08 2001 - 05:43:37 CST
I did not quote you, and I have not given you any credit. Quote marks can,
as here, be used for "casting" expressions to nomens.
I do understand that running Abiword on low end system is not, and should
IMO not be a focus of most abiword contributors. A good word processor that
runs on low end system is however needed, and Abiword is a good candidate
due to its GPL licence and XP design. Due to this fact, the discussion has
been interesting.
>From: Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere@teaser.fr>
>To: Michael Kallas <michael.kallas@web.de>
>CC: abiword-user@abisource.com
>Subject: Re: [Free]DOS port?
>Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 22:16:01 +0100
>
>According to Michael Kallas <michael.kallas@web.de>:
> > Hi, ok, sorry to have written to the wrong list...
> >
> > Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere@teaser.fr> schrieb am 07.11.01:
> > > According to ArcadePreserv Center <arcadepreserv@hotmail.com>:
>
>[...]
> > > So, it is not only a "see if it can be done" and "see if I can do it"
> > > thing,
> > > it is in fact also a quite useful thing. Not to mention the usefulness
> > > in the 3rd world, where I believe modern computers are a luxuary.
> > There is also some project sending computers based on FreeDOS into these
> > countries.
>
>Would you please mind quote properly and not give me credit for thing I
>haven't written or said like the above.
>
>
>And to close the thread:
>Is unlikely that AbiWord will ever run in less than 8 or 16 MB of RAM (with
>OS). If someone want to port it to FreeDOS, feel free to go and submit a
>patch once you have something working. Note that if you touch to much XP
>code, it is likely it will get rejected. That being said, good luck.
>
>
>/End
>
>Hub
>
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