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Re: information




On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, Ira Abramov wrote:

> > 4.0? All three-digit-Megs of it? With OLE2, DCOM, ActiveX and stuff? I

actually, i would assume it would contain ActiveX (which is just a set of
pre-defined interfaces running on top of DCOM). OLE2 is just the older
name for ActiveX. and there are several ports of these (as well as much of
the win32 API) to unix, maid by companies such as mainsoft, bristol, etc.

yet, it won't run any pre-compiled activeX control you'd find on various
web sites, presumably due to different assembly language (e.g. sparc
assembly vs. x86 assembly), or different shared library (DLL) file format.

but for a company writing its own active-X controls, this could be a good
deal (And this is actually why microsoft ports their browser to unix in
the first place - so their large corporate customers, that insist on
running a single type of browser on all their systems, and have unix, os/2
etc., will be able to finally make the switch from netscape to IE).

guy