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- From: mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis) (OS/2)
- Subject: Re: Windows NT humor
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.084140.21830@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
- References: <1992Dec7.062042.42298@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> <19939@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 08:41:40 GMT
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- In article <19939@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> f110045@othello.ucdavis.edu writes:
- >...
- >
- >I may be wrong, and if so flame on, but according to Kogan's book "The
- >Design of OS/2" the windows 3.0 compatability is based on 3.1 code:
- > Loaded into the VDM is a special version of the Windows 3.1 protected
- > mode kernel that directly services the requests of Windows 3.X
- > applications running in the VDM." pg 300
- >Alan Williams
- >ajwilliams@ucdavis.edu
-
- Your book must be a different one from mine. My copy says "...special
- version of the Windows 3.X kernel that..." (The title page says
- 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 for the book version).
-
- Anyways, I recommend _The Design of OS/2_ by Deitel and Kogan (published
- by Addison-Wesley) for you technical types out there.
-
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