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

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From: Eugen... Eugen Woiwod
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 00:00

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In article <3usbj4$2f...@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>, gmc...@ibm.net (Gord
McFee) writes:
>
> Msg-ID: <3usbj4$2f...@news-s01.ny.us.ibm.net>
> References: <DC3Fq...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>
> Posted: 23 Jul 1995 02:19:16 GMT
>
> In message <3ur5qs$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.


*One* word: Take this stupid debate to some other group :-)

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From: Eugen_...@mindlink.bc.ca (Eugen Woiwod)
Subject: Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96)
Date: 1995/07/22
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