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- From: pathak@mitre.org (Heeren Pathak)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: os/2 win3.1 support
- Message-ID: <pathak-080992094721@virtual.mitre.org>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 13:52:42 GMT
- References: <1992Sep6.1480.26637@dosgate>
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- In article <1992Sep6.1480.26637@dosgate>, "roger ramsey"
- <roger.ramsey@canrem.com> wrote:
- >
- > 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...
- >
- > 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...
- >
-
- Hmmmm..... I wonder what the "majority" will be. What portion of my
- software investment will have to be upgraded.
-
- Note, this is DIRECTLY opposite of what MS has been stating in the past.
- MS said the NT would support ALL Win 3.1 apps, now they state that it might
- not.
-
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