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

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From: jkne... Jim Knepley
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 00:00

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Ku...@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Cyber Ice) writes:

>>> >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 

The previous statement was taken out of context.  :-)

Jim
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From: jkne...@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Jim Knepley)
Subject: Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96)
Date: 1995/07/25
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