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   .os2.programmer.misc:1874 openwatcom.users.c_cpp:1969   
   From: Will Honea    
      
   Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote:   
      
   > Watcom C/C++ has never had DirectToSOM C++ in any version as far as I am   
   > aware.  DSOM is usually Distributed SOM, by the way, not DirectToSOM.   
   > You were originally talking about Distributed SOM, weren't you?   
      
   Confusion factor ;-)  We were using DSOM (Distributed SOM) on that one    
   contract and I was looking to use it on another project for a different    
   contract so I bought some version of Watcom that made a big deal out of    
   DirectToSOM.  I'd have to go digging through the CD stack to find the    
   version that had it but that would take a while - I'm a packrat when it    
   comes to keeping old software around so the CD stack is (literally) several    
   feet high.   
      
   My point was really that DSOM implementation drove a lot of improvement in    
   the base SOM code hence the access we had to code.   
       
   > Supporting Distributed SOM and supporting DirectToSOM C++ programs are   
   > two different animals.  Supporting Distributed SOM requires a whole load   
   > of infrastructure, from marshalling through IPC interfaces to repository   
   > support.  Supporting simple DirectToSOM C++ programs requires just the   
   > basic SOM runtime support, in particular the method lookups that are   
   > used by compiled DirectToSOM C++ code, the basic SOMObject and SOMClass   
   > classes, object memory management, and a few other bits and pieces.   
      
   You've got my curiosity up now.  I'll look and see if I can sort out the    
   various Watcom releases.  I know the DirectToSOM functionality disappeared    
   before the openWatcom era, likely because of license issues, but I'm fairly    
   certain that at least one Watcom release included it because I tried to use    
   it - with less than stellar results.   
      
   To give you a feeling for the search task: my office here at home has nearly    
   50 feet of shelves containing just commercial software releases.  I even    
   keep a couple of 8" floppy drives hooked up to read some of it.  One old    
   machine has 8", 5.25", and 3.5" floppy drives installed plus a punch card    
   reader.  I keep saying that I'm going to copy all that over to DVD but....   
      
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   Will Honea   
      
      
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