Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96)

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From: rjva... Rob Vanden Heuvel
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 00:00

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>> No, OS/2 doesn't support VxD's. Neither does NT. They shouldn't. The fact that
>> Windows 95 supports VxD's is a BAD THING (tm) (C) 1995 Microsoft Corporation.
>
> Not true. With compatibility as the #1 goal of Windows 95, this is a 
> necessary evil.

Yet Microsoft has achieved compatibility which, by all reports on this 
newsgroup at least, are no better than OS/2s.  Now seeing that OS/2 is
a fully 32-bit OS, please explain to me again why it was so necessary for
Win95 to use so much 16-bit code?  Hmmm?


Rob Vanden Heuvel

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From: rjva...@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Rob Vanden Heuvel)
Subject: Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96)
Date: 1995/07/22
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