Re: Yarn source code

From: Jerry McBride (mcbrides@erols.com)
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 23:23:09 -0400

>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.
>

That's basically the path I took, but I ended up using OS/2.

>>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.
>

My experience varies and I understand where you're coming from. I "just"
upgraded my hardware recently and now run a speed demon of a computer... A
166mhz pentium... ;') Life has never been better and my old 486 is now doing
server duty...

>>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.
>:)
>

Wow! My hat is off to you, Sir.

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