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- From: "bill dehaan" <bill.dehaan@canrem.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: windows 3.1 support
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.1480.22683@dosgate>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 21:41:02 EST
- Reply-To: "bill dehaan" <bill.dehaan@canrem.com>
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
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- I wrote:
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- BD>Not quite. They showed the Windows 3.1 support, true. But they are
- BD>definately NOT "mostly finished". Getting a demonstrable version and
- BD>getting a shippable version are two totally different things, as we all
- BD>know. Remember, Reiswig showed off Win31 support at Comdex on April 7th,
- BD>one day after Win31 was officially released. But that was prototype, not
- BD>product. From what I hear, the Win31 stuff is close, but more work is
- BD>required. WPS and performance are the big issues as far as IBM are
- BD>concerned, apparently (that, and drivers).
-
- Dave Tholen then wrote:
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- DT>Um, they're definitely NOT "mostly finished", but from what you hear, the
- DT>Win31 stuff is close? Perhaps it's a matter of semantics, but close and
- DT>mostly finished sound like the same thing to me.
-
- Yeah, I worded that very badly. The point I was trying to make was that
- although the FUNCTIONALITY of Win31 is "mostly finished", the stability
- of it running under OS/2 needs a lot more work, so a release date isn't
- "close". Makes more sense now? PLEASE say yes. :-)
-
- Sheesh, did I put my foot in it that time.
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