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Article #2353Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96)
From: Eugen... Eugen Woiwod
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 00:00
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 00:00
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In article <3us9re$a...@alpha.wright.edu>, iyo...@alpha.wright.edu (Ian Young) writes: > > Msg-ID: <3us9re$a...@alpha.wright.edu> > References: <3ur5qs$f8_...@line04.socketis.net> > Posted: 22 Jul 1995 21:49:34 -0400 > > Org. : Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio 45435 > > Jody Cooper (jco...@socketis.net) wrote: > > In article <DC3Fq...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>, > > rjva...@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Rob Vanden Heuvel) wrote: > > > >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? > > > Two words: Backwards Compatibility. > > Um... I thought we'd already established that the incompatible list for > OS/2's windows support is no longer than the incompatible list for Win95 > > I think the real reason is : "Because otherwise we'd might as well sell > WindowsNT." > > which is what we're hearing now anyway. > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Jody Cooper EMail: > jco...@socketis.net > > ToastWare, Inc. > > -- > Ian G. Bull Young |"sometimes, even music cannot > iyo...@alpha.wright.edu |substitute for tears" -Paul Simon > "The guy who tries to be funny, |"The Way is empty, yet > but everbody laughs at" |use will not drain it. -Lao Tzu > > > > Can you PLEASE take this damn debate to another group? Are people stupid or something? This is the comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action GROUP! I came here to read about games, not some stupid OS debating/flame war's!
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From: Eugen_...@mindlink.bc.ca (Eugen Woiwod) Subject: Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96) Date: 1995/07/22 Message-ID: <74902-806470610@mindlink.bc.ca> X-Deja-AN: 106703353 distribution: world organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit