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

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From: Curtis Bass
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 00:00

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jco...@socketis.net (Jody Cooper) 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.

Uh, methinks that you are not reading the post carefully before replying.

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>Jody Cooper                                  EMail:  jco...@socketis.net

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When I want your opinion, I'll give     Curtis Bass
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                                        University of Texas Medical Branch

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From: Curtis Bass <cbass%int...@mhost.utmb.edu>
Subject: Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96)
Date: 1995/07/24
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