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MarxMenu will continue to grow and develop. Because MarxMenu is an overlaid program I have the ability to add as many features as I want without slowing down load or processing speed. In fact MarxMenu is 10 times as fast today as it was in 1989 and its vocabulary of commands has grown 20 times as well.
Most of the new features I add to MarxMenu are a result of your requests. Feel free to call me and make suggestions as to what you want to see in MarxMenu. Often my biggest problem in adding new features is getting companies to release information. Thus, if you want something new and I have to go to IBM, Novell, or Microsoft to get information sometimes it takes a while. So if you have any pull with some of these vendors and will help me put the squeeze on them, I'd appreciate it.
I'm often asked the question, what other operating systems will I support? Will there be a Windows version? An OS/2 version? Unix?
Let me say first that my primary commitment is to the OS that most people actually use, and that is DOS. I am not moved by the industry politics. I focus on the systems that make computers and networks actually work.
So for those of you who are asking the question "Will there be a Windows version of MarxMenu?" The answer is no. The reason is, in my view, windows is too unstable a platform in which to develop code for. As I see it, Windows is a programmer angry environment and is fatally flawed by design. I consider this path a mistake and a mistake that I am not going to make. The structure of Windows is such that MarxMenu could not be ported to it. If it were to be ported, it would be a completely different product.
Will there be an OS/2 version? No. IBM made a lot of promises that they didn't keep. I lobbied hard to get IBM to add some features to OS/2 to allow DOS programs to control the OS/2 environment and talk to the OS/2 kernel. This would have allowed MarxMenu, as a DOS program to control OS/2 programs. The response was that IBM wants people to move away from DOS and refused to add the necessary features. The Borland compilers that were supposed to be ready when OS/2 was released don't exist.
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