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- From: msmith@netcom.com (Martin P. Smith)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: os/2 win3.1 support
- Message-ID: <_aqnfqp.msmith@netcom.com>
- Date: 7 Sep 92 06:10:44 GMT
- References: <1992Sep6.1480.26637@dosgate>
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
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- In article <1992Sep6.1480.26637@dosgate> "roger ramsey" <roger.ramsey@canrem.com> writes:
- >Martin P. Smith wrote on 09-04-92 regarding OS/2 WIN3.1 SUPPORT:
- >
- >
- >MP>Oh NT doesn't support all my 3.1 apps I'd better get with the program
- >MP>and buy the NT version. Real smart thinking I don't think !!!!!
- >
- >But Martin, this is what IBM would have had you do for the last five years
- >until OS/2 2.0 came out...
-
- Please explain thisstatement further.
-
- OS2 and Windows were totally seprate product lines
- that you bought software for one or the other. Any software that worked on
- OS2 1.0 would still run under 1.x This is plainly not the case with Windows
- as some apps under 1.x wouldn't run under 2.x .....
-
-
- >
- >Besides, NT will have 3.1 app support. It might not be for all 3.1 apps
- >but they are promising the majority. Time (and BETAs) will tell...
-
-
- They ARE NOT PROMISING TO SUPPORT THE MAJORITY. I will assume that you are
- unaware of the announcement made by Microsoft that they will aim to
- provide 100% upport for the TOP 100 SELLING Windows applications and the
- 100 TOP Selling DOS applications.
-
- Will NT support enhanced mode apps ??? Will it support ALL 3.0 2.0 apps NO.
-
- In the near future OS2 will and very neatly by providing a 3.0 kernel and a
- 3.1 Kernel.
-
- If you have honestly used the NT pre-beta and seen the quality of the 3.1
- and 16 bit dos support you would not trumpet this suport so loudly as it
- is clearly inferior to that provided by OS2.
-
- >
- >Roj
- >
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- Martin P. Smith
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