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- From: rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
- Subject: Re: Origins of IBM / Microsoft rift
- References: <1992Jul29.065821.24656@seas.gwu.edu> <r5nmfzl.xtifr@netcom.com> <1992Jul30.161639.5706@microsoft.com>
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- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 20:48:02 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.204802.7619@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
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- In article <1992Jul30.161639.5706@microsoft.com> gordonl@microsoft.com (Gordon Letwin) writes:
- > 2) OS/2 runs windows applications. I hear every day how well it
- > does so. So who in their right minds will write apps for
- > OS/2 PM - and only run on OS/2 - when they could write apps
- > for Windows and run on BOTH platforms?
- >
- > So the MS apps group really IS supporting OS/2, according
- > to dogma on this group. They're producing windows apps
- > and those apps run better on OS/2 then windows (so it's said
- > by folks who say a lot of silly things), ergo MS/Apps group
- > is supporting OS/2 more then they are Windows. QED.
- >
- >gordon letwin
- >not a spokesman for microsoft
-
- You are right, OS/2 runs Windows apps better than Windows itself (IMO,
- if I think of overall throughput and system integrity). BUT, native OS/2
- app run even better than Windows apps on OS/2! Thats all. Is this
- difficult to understand?
-
- Kai Uwe Rommel
-
- /* Kai Uwe Rommel --- rommel@informatik.tu-muenchen.de */
-
- DOS ... is still a real mode only non-reentrant interrupt
- handler, and always will be. -Russell Williams
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