home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!Germany.EU.net!news.netmbx.de!zrz.tu-berlin.de!math.fu-berlin.de!informatik.tu-muenchen.de!rommel
- From: rommel@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 apps (was: I've seen NT...)
- References: <1992Aug13.073141.16594@actrix.gen.nz> <1992Aug13.123242.14212@wes.on.ca>
- Sender: news@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE (USENET Newssystem)
- Organization: Technische Universitaet Muenchen, Germany
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 16:35:04 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.163504.12284@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE>
- Lines: 17
-
- In article <1992Aug13.123242.14212@wes.on.ca> tomh@wes.on.ca (Tom Haapanen) writes:
- >So, can someone point out whether some of these are actually out now that
- >we're halfway into the third quarter? I'll list some of the ones I actually
- >recognize from the 2Q92 list. I've marked the ones I know are available
- >with a '*' in the first column... (Oh, and OS/2 1.x apps don't count!)
-
- Well, an OS/2 1.x app running on OS/2 2.0 is still far better than
- running an Windows 3.x app on Windows 3.1 (or OS/2 2.0 WIN-OS2).
- Example: Microsoft Excel 3.0 (they don't make a 4.0 for OS/2, obviously)
-
- 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
-
-