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

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From: gmc... Gord McFee
Date: Sun, 23 Jul 1995 00:00

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In message <3ur5qs$f8_...@line04.socketis.net> - jco...@socketis.net (Jody Coo
per) writes:
:>
:>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.

*One* word:  Backward.





Gord McFee 
"I'll write no line before its time"

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From: gmc...@ibm.net (Gord McFee)
Subject: Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96)
Date: 1995/07/23
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