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- From: larry@Birdsong.Suvl.CA.US (Lawrence T. Hardiman)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: Update on Helldiver
- Message-ID: <oXGQrA2NBh107h@Birdsong.Suvl.CA.US>
- Date: 29 Dec 92 14:51:20 GMT
- References: <p9xPrAuCBh107h@Birdsong.Suvl.CA.US> <D76iwB1w165w@berry.Cary.NC.US>
- Reply-To: larry@Birdsong.Suvl.CA.US
- Organization: The Birdsong Company, PO Box 2031, Sunnyvale CA 94087-2031
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- In <D76iwB1w165w@berry.Cary.NC.US> pat@berry.Cary.NC.US (Pat Berry) writes:
- >larry@Birdsong.Suvl.CA.US (Lawrence T. Hardiman) writes:
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- >> Lessee here? What is the agenda? ...Cary, NC. Ahhh? Is that where the
- >> IBM company has a development laboratory for OS/2 stuff???
- >Yes.
- >> Ahhh? Pat, do you work for the IBM company?
- >No.
- >No hidden agenda here. I'd simply like to see a native OS/2 version of
- >Helldiver.
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- Just testing! :-)
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- So, I do have another question.
- My understanding is that OS/2 will run Windows applications "out of the box".
- If this is the case, then why would anyone want (need) to write 2 platform
- specific implementations of a FreeWare newsreader for Waffle?
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- Answering my own question: To get implementation experience on OS/2.
-
- Regards,
- larry.
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- Larry@Birdsong.Suvl.CA.US
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