Re: Yarn source code

From: Jeff Foy (bg809@scn.org)
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 11:06:41 -0700

In article <oj0p38D5wSKR090yn@erols.com>,
mcbrides@erols.com (Jerry McBride) wrote:
>
>Why would you want to port the yarn code to Linux?

If Yarn could be ported to Linux, I would quite seriously
consider giving up Windows forever. Yarn and Forte's Agent are the only
two applications I regularly use in Windows. Everything else I use is on
the Linux system I have.

>Why not to something more attune to the Internet as a whole and do it
>in java?

Java applications have a tendency to run slow on older hardware.
NetZero's software is in Java and is very slow on my old '486. Yarn95,
however, runs an order of magnitude faster there.

>But having the Yarn source code to "read as you write" would be a blessing. And
>writing to the JVM would be a bigger blessing for all of us, not just a few
>specific platforms...

Fwiw, if I had the source to Yarn, the first thing I would do is
covert/translate it to assembly language where I feel most comfortable.
:)

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