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

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From: jco... Jody Cooper
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 00:00
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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.

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From: jco...@socketis.net (Jody Cooper)
Subject: Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96)
Date: 1995/07/22
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