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Article #2366Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96)
From: wver... Wim Verveen
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 00:00
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In article <nCbCwg6Z...@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu>,
khc...@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu (Oliver Chung) wrote:
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> wver...@xs4all.nl (Wim Verveen) wrote:
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> >I think somewhere the statement was made that OS/2 was more compatible. If
> >so, it has to support vxd's. DOes warp support windows' vxd's or not?
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> No, Warp won't support VxDs (nor will NT), because VxD has to be
> run in Ring0, which means it can do whatever it like with the
> entire machine, a big no-no on _protected_ multitasking
> environment.
That being the case it means that windows 95 will have better support
for win16 applications than NT and OS/2. If this is a good thin in this
regard is for everybody personal to decide.
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From: wver...@xs4all.nl (Wim Verveen) Subject: Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96) Date: 1995/07/17 Message-ID: <DhrCwIxWcvoH083yn@xs4all.nl> X-Deja-AN: 106423501 references: <3q8ngd$rej@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <3t1tmv$a1i@moe.cc.emory.edu> organization: XS4ALL, the Netherlands x-posted-by: wver...@xs1.xs4all.nl newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit