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On 19 Apr 1995, JORDAN SPENSER AARON wrote:

> And what kind of work are you doing?  So, just how many business, 
> scientific, etc applications are written specifically for OS2.  Odds are 
> you are working on OS2 with windows applications; which in the future, 
> wil be written to take advantage of Windows '95

I don't know about the original target of this comment, but I rely
extensively on SAS for OS/2 (high powered statistical/data management
program native to almost every platform you can mention, with OS/2 being
one of the best versions of SAS) and DeScribe (word processor) -- both at
work and at home.  The only Windows app I use at work is Davinci email;
the only Windows app I use at home is CA-Simply Money (and I'm looking
forward to the upcoming OS/2 port). 

> Oh, and sure I will be playing...  Windows '95 will be a great gaming 
> platform <insert flame here> as all of the major game developers are 
> writing for it.  
> 
> Sure OS2 will have great games too; GC being my case in point.  I 
> believe, however, that the majority of the really cool games will be 
> unavailable for the poor souls in the, "I love OS2 and I don't care even 
> if Microsoft is cruching us," camp.  

Of course, you ignore the recent IBM/Lotus announcement.  They are working
on the API calls that are similar under both OS/2 and Win95 (forgive me if
I'm a bit off in this description, as I'm not a programmer in either
environment).  What that will mean is that a game developer can write a
program for Win95 and use the SAME source code to compile the game for
OS/2.  Of course, there is currently a tool that allows the vendor to use
a large portions of their code, but it still requires some writing as I
understand it; however, given the ability to port the code by simply
switching the parameters of the compiler, there will be no excuse for not
producing native OS/2 versions of games (and other apps) given this
capability. 

JOHN

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