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- From: ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: NT is missing something major: OS/2 32-bit compatibility
- Message-ID: <92352.145443ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 14:54:43 GMT
- References: <2b29ae56@f514.n202.z1.fidonet.org>
- <1992Dec17.060020.22368@netcom.com>
- Organization: Forschungszentrum Juelich
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- In article <1992Dec17.060020.22368@netcom.com>, samiam@netcom.com (Scott Moore)
- says:
- >
- >run virtually any app available (prehaps including posix). Then we might have
- >the odd situation of os/2 2.0 being the most popular 32 os, and win32 being
- >the most common app interface.
-
- No. If OS/2 would become the most popular 32bit OS (which I hope, but I know
- Murphy's law) then its own API would be used. Does Win32 support multithreading
- long filenames, extended attributes and does it make use of SOM ? I don't think
- so. If one admits that these features give an advantage to apps which use them
- then there must be only one company (e.g. Lotus) which makes use of them to get
- a better product out. Then all the others will have to follow or they will
- loose the market.
-
- Or would you use a word processor that forces you to name a file ltr2jim.doc
- instead of Letter_to_Jim ?
-
- Michael Bode.
-