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   From: Peter Flass    
      
   On 1/29/2011 3:34 PM, Will Honea wrote:   
   > 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....   
   >   
      
   Wow, my wife is giving me grief about a bookshelf...   
      
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