Except that no one outside of Pd world (AFAIK) uses MSW to mean Windows. As for windows being a generic term, I don't know anyone that would be confused as to which OS you are talking about if you say "windows". Its a common word, yes, but by de facto in computer land "windows" means Microsoft. Win32 might be a comprimise.
.hc
On Dec 20, 2005, at 3:12 PM, Miller Puckette wrote:
Well, "msw" is pretty specific!
On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 02:54:53PM -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Miller Puckette wrote:
Yes, but "windows" is also a generic term, which "darwin" and "linux" aren't. Perhaps "pd_microsoft", but that would be a 12-letter suffix!
But "micro" is a generic term, and so is "soft", and so is "p?d?".
So what do we do now?
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