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2013-02-23 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/23/13 2:31 PM, Richmond wrote: Ahah: J. Landman Gay has another of those "putting Richmond right" moments! I only remember that far back because I'm getting so damn old. -- Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com HyperActive Software | http://www.hyper

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2013-02-23 Thread Richmond
On 02/23/2013 10:29 PM, J. Landman Gay wrote: On 2/23/13 2:15 PM, Richmond wrote: As far as I understand Metacard (Livecard's true ancestor) was started as a Windows equivalent to Hypercard, which, very quickly, went cross platform. Unix was the first and only version for some years, since Dr

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2013-02-23 Thread J. Landman Gay
On 2/23/13 2:15 PM, Richmond wrote: As far as I understand Metacard (Livecard's true ancestor) was started as a Windows equivalent to Hypercard, which, very quickly, went cross platform. Unix was the first and only version for some years, since Dr Raney was a 'nix guy. Next came Windows for a

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2013-02-23 Thread Roger Eller
Indeed. All good points. I first discovered, and started working with Metacard when my primary OS at work was SGI Irix. When we switched to Windows NT, it had already become Revolution, so I moved forward with that. It saddened me to see the *nix platforms go away, but there's only so much a small

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2013-02-23 Thread Richmond
On 02/23/2013 09:58 PM, Roger Eller wrote: Very good article! I do have to wonder why however, are there not more articles on Linux and Windows sites? Sure the roots of LiveCode are Apple flavored, but shouldn't the cross platform aspects be promoted beyond the Apple fan-base? As far as I under

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2013-02-23 Thread Roger Eller
Very good article! I do have to wonder why however, are there not more articles on Linux and Windows sites? Sure the roots of LiveCode are Apple flavored, but shouldn't the cross platform aspects be promoted beyond the Apple fan-base? Sent from my Pipo M2 On Feb 23, 2013 10:14 AM, "Colin Holgate"

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2013-02-23 Thread Mark Wieder
Colin- Saturday, February 23, 2013, 7:13:35 AM, you wrote: > This one was via a friend, Michael Cohen, he asked Adam Engst to > say something in TidBITS. Adam not only did that, but actually wrote > a monster article: > http://tidbits.com/article/13582 Good article. Comments added. -- -Mark W

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2013-02-23 Thread FORD JR, CURT
Great article. I sent a note about it to MacSurfer and they've linked to it from their Press Release section - hopefully that'll help with visibility. Curt ___ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe,