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- From: rodgers@engcon.marshall.ltv.com (KMRODGERS)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Win3.1 support *better* than MS!
- Message-ID: <1002@engcon.marshall.ltv.com>
- Date: 11 Sep 92 17:36:35 GMT
- References: <1992Aug27.122649.21603@actrix.gen.nz> <ignacij.714930723@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu>
- Reply-To: rodgers@engcon.UUCP (KMRODGERS)
- Organization: LTV MEG, Dallas, TX
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- In article <ignacij.714930723@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu> ignacij@meishan.animal.uiuc.edu (Ignacy Misztal) writes:
- |>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.
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- Keep in mind, not all apps that require Windows 386 mode are incompatible
- with OS/2. Only those which use the "DLL from hell", WINMEM32.DLL, cannot
- be used under OS/2. Yes, that includes some very nice applications, but
- certainly not all of the Win386 mode apps.
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- Kevin Rodgers rodgers%engcon@uunet.uu.net Loral Vought Systems Co.
- Since Ling, Temco, and Vought are all gone now, I suggest that LTV Corp.
- change its name to MBSC (Mostly Bankrupt Steel Company).
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