Bush-like weasel words about standalone

Richard Gaskin ambassador at fourthworld.com
Thu Dec 22 12:27:09 EST 2005


Scott Kane wrote:
>>I would pesume they use an intermediary file format, like the 
>>HQX option 
>>I mentioned earlier, as Windows has no resource fork.
>>
>>If RB has found a way to coerce the Windows OS into handling resource 
>>forks I'd be interested in learning more.
>
> It's about the only thing it does nicely.  Otherwise my experience of
> it, compared to the stability of Rev, is that it's junk.  I still use
> Delphi for Windows app's, but I use Rev for OSX and *nix.  RB app's
> compiled for Classic, in my limited experience, have had massive memory
> management issues, espeicially with database work.

Classic was notorious for being very, very difficult to manage memory 
in.  Who would have thought that an OS should require users to 
understand memory allocation and manually adjust it?  Glad that 
silliness is long behind us....

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