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   From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard    
      
   > If this gets started, I should be able to supply some resources for it    
   > - I have (had?) a good bit of documentation and some of the source    
   > code for SOM 3 before that died. It will take some digging.   
   >   
      
   You have IBM's actual source code for the SOM Runtime?  That's    
   impressive.  It's also valuable.  I've read that even IBM doesn't have    
   the source code any more.  Keep hold of that!  Don't throw it away.   
      
   > The better plan for building would be to use VACPP 3 rather than    
   > Watcom until you get a build environment and working code base.   
   >   
      
   I still use MetaWare High C/C++ for OS/2 primarily.  The problem with    
   switching to Watcom C/C++ is that my code base requires several things    
   that Watcom C/C++ doesn't have:   
      
   * anybase numeric literals (e.g. 0x2x0010_0100_1101_1001)   
      
   * local functions   
      
   * for() iterators that use local functions   
      
   * DirectToSOM C++   
      
   > Talk about old/moldy: those archives appear to date from 1999 - 2002!    
   > I still think PM/WPS/SOM was best model I ever worked with. Even DSOM    
   > was more usable than most current desktop systems.   
   >   
      
   Which brings us back to the discussion of realistic short-term goals    
   from elsewhere in this thread.  The whole DSOM mechanism isn't necessary    
   to start with.  Just enough of a runtime for an ordinary DirectToSOM    
   C/C++ program to work would be enough.   
      
      
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