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- From: tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2 NOT 32 Bit?
- Message-ID: <PuV4VB5w165w@tcscs.UUCP>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 01:14:24 GMT
- References: <724884108rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org>
- Reply-To: zeta%tcscs@src.honeywell.com
- Organization: TCS Consulting Services
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- rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel) writes:
-
- > In article <92352.112713ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET> ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET writes
- > >You are right and they are wrong. There are _some_ parts that are 16Bit. Tho
- > >the only one I know of was the old (GA Version) graphics engine. Since the
- > >service pack it is 32Bit. OS/2 has the old APIs for 16 apps and perhaps the
- > >texmode I/O functions are 16Bit code. But as I understand IBM wants to move
- > >to PM-only operation, so it would be logical not to change that to 32Bit cod
- >
- > Actually, more parts of PM are still 16-bit, such as the Window
- > Manager and apparently also the GPI. They will be converted to 32-bit
- > over the next year, as far as I know.
- >
- From my understanding, the HPFS file system is also 16 bit. From what I've
- seen there is still a large portion of OS/2 that is 16 bit. I was under the
- impression is was 100% 32 bit EXCEPT for the graphics engine... needless to
- say when I learned otherwise I was a bit disillusioned at first.
-
- Does anyone have a complete list of what components are 32 bit and what parts
- are 16 bit?
-
-
- Greg
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