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- From: tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: Update on Helldiver
- Message-ID: <B4okwB2w165w@tcscs.UUCP>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 21:07:34 CST
- References: <oXGQrA2NBh107h@Birdsong.Suvl.CA.US>
- Reply-To: zeta%tcscs@src.honeywell.com
- Organization: TCS Consulting Services
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- larry@Birdsong.Suvl.CA.US (Lawrence T. Hardiman) writes:
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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:
- >
- > >> 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.
- >
- > Just testing! :-)
- >
- > 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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- Yes it will...but you have the extra overhead of windows, plus your really
- still stuck with DOS limitations. Plus, you can't take advantage of OS/2's
- full potential.
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