Microsoft pulls Windows 10 October 2018 Update due to major issues

Re:Microsoft pulls Windows 10 October 2018 Update due to maj... by CyberDildonics on Sunday October 07, 2018 @07:40PM (#18163223)

3D Studio was written directly for Windows NT and isn't available on Mac OSX either. There is already Maya, Softimage XSI, Houdini and Modo on Linux. I'm not sure where the expectation comes from that 3D Studio would be ported to Linux. It isn't any sort of a standard for general 3d work, isn't used much by the computer animation or visual effects companies, and is more of an exception.

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Re:Microsoft pulls Windows 10 October 2018 Update due to maj... by vetinari on Monday October 08, 2018 @03:29AM (#18164937)

It is not an expectation of being ported to Linux, it is a statement of fact of being windows exclusive.

It was originally a DOS application, which was rewritten for Windows, and is used in game development.

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Re:Microsoft pulls Windows 10 October 2018 Update due to maj... by CyberDildonics on Monday October 08, 2018 @10:49AM (#18167952)

The original comment was about Adobe and Autodesk 'supporting' linux properly. 3D Studio was originally written for DOS, but published by Autodesk, not written by them.

It doesn't make sense to say Autodesk doesn't 'properly support Linux' when they have software for Linux, and one program that isn't for Linux doesn't really have much demand on Linux in the first place.

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