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

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From: Ku... Cyber Ice
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 00:00

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In article <3us9re$a...@alpha.wright.edu> iyo...@alpha.wright.edu (Ian Young) writes:
>From: iyo...@alpha.wright.edu (Ian Young)
>Subject: Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96)
>Date: 22 Jul 1995 21:49:34 -0400

>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

Who has established anything? Win95's Support for hardware and software blows 
OS/2 out of the water!

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From: Ku...@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Cyber Ice)
Subject: Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96)
Date: 1995/07/24
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