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- From: Luke Jackson <luke@lodcomp.demon.co.uk>
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- Subject: Re: I will NEVER buy Windows 95 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-(
- Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 15:48:20 +0000
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- In article <dil.admin.2438.000B7EA9@mhs.unc.edu>, "David I. Laudicina"
- <dil.admin@mhs.unc.edu> writes
- >Actually given the 50 million users of 3.1 MS strategy of keeping pieces of
- >GDI and USer 16 bit for compatibility looks like a good one. It makes the
- >transition from 3.1 with lots of win16 apps much easier. (ie you don't have
- >to go out and buy all new apps but can phase them in). Once everyone gets
- >upgraded to win32 apps the trasnition for the meld of NT and 95 will be easy.
- >To bad I can't even run win32 (not win32s under 3.10) apps in OS/2 .
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- I don't think that MS intended to keep all of the 16 bit code. Look at
- NT, it is fully 32-bit and runs all 3.1 programs fine. It was a matter
- of time (or lack thereof) that there is still a lot of 16-bit code in
- Win95.
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- Luke Jackson
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