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- From: tomh@wes.on.ca (Tom Haapanen)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Win3.1 support *better* than MS!
- Organization: Waterloo Engineering Software
- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1992 13:01:27 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.130127.11855@wes.on.ca>
- References: <1992Aug27.122649.21603@actrix.gen.nz> <ignacij.714930723@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu> <1992Aug27.161548.42606@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu>
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- thompson@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu writes:
- > Well, the bigger packages get, the more enticing 32 bit code becomes.
- > So in order to use something the OS/2 has (32 bitness), the product
- > is made incompatible with OS/2. Chances are that these vendors
- > will recognize that 32 bitness along with all the other features OS/2
- > provides are what they need for these growing packages.
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- Sure, 32-bitness is an advantage. But the choice isn't quite so simple
- for developers -- there is also the option of doing a fast Win32 port
- and selling the product for Windows NT and Windows 3.1 + Win32s.
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- If I were IBM, I'd be *intensively* lobbying the ISVs to make sure they
- are putting at least as much effort into their OS/2 versions as any Windows
- NT development. Whether they are actually doing anything like this...
-
- [ \tom haapanen "i don't even know what street canada is on" -- al capone ]
- [ tomh@wes.on.ca "trust the programmer" -- ansi c standard ]
- [ waterloo engineering software "to thine own self be true" -- polonius ]
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