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- From: weinkam@fraser.sfu.ca (James Lawrence Weinkam)
- Subject: Re: os/2 win3.1 support
- Message-ID: <weinkam.715566500@sfu.ca>
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- Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
- References: <1992Sep3.1480.26327@dosgate>
- Distribution: comp
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 00:28:20 GMT
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- "roger ramsey" <roger.ramsey@canrem.com> writes:
-
- >Richard Anstruther wrote on 09-02-92 regarding UN:OS/2 WIN3.1 SUPPORT:
-
- >RA>BTW, did you notice the latest expose of MS's use of undocumented
- >RA>system calls in Windows to give their apps the inside track over
- >RA>the competition? It 's in the latest PC week.
-
- >Where? I have both the August 17 and August 24 issues in front of me (the
- >latter arrived yesterday) with nothing on that. Also, if that were true
- >then the FTC would definitely be doing **something** with the information
- >and they appear to be strangely reticent.
-
- >This leads me to believe that if there are allegations, once more they are
- >either sour grapes or hot air.
-
- I remember reading about 1 year ago in PC MAG about a program they
- wrote which would identify all the windows calls an app used. They
- found that MS apps were using a lot of undocumented calls. I will
- try to find the article so I can post a date for you.
-
- James
-