NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #19/NN_1992_19.iso/spool/comp/os/os2/misc/28457

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Subject: Re: OS/2 Win3.1 support *better* than MS!
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 28 Aug 92 12:00:12 GMT
References: <[e-mail]>
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Organization: KFA  Forschungszentrum Juelich
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In article <[e-mail]>,
[e-mail] (Ignacy Misztal) says:
>
>
>I am finding more and more good Windows applications
>that are using the enhanced mode. Therefore they don't work under
>OS/2. Windows under OS/2 is thus useless for me.
>It would run neither Mathematica nor Framaker + many other good packages.
>Is it possible to write a large Windows application without
>resorting to the enhanced mode? If so, I would suspect that many
>current Windows developers will try to make their packages run well
>under the OS/2 Windows.

If you want a these programs for OS/2 call the company and tell them you want
to use their product but you don`t want to use Windoze. Since many of these
programs e.g. FrameMaker and Mathematica originally come from systems without
the brain damaged 8086/80286 architecture it was hard work to port them to
DOS/Windows. It will be much easier (and therefore cheaper) to port them to
OS/2 2.0. So I don`t think they need ten thousands of requests to consider
a port.
In case of FrameMaker send email to Linda Rodriguez of Frame Tech Support:
  [e-mail].

Michael Bode.