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- From: pat@berry.Cary.NC.US (Pat Berry)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: Update on Helldiver
- Message-ID: <2PDNwB1w165w@berry.Cary.NC.US>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 07:54:48 EST
- References: <g1bQrAeMBh107h@mala.proteus.qc.ca>
- Organization: Berry Communications
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- ranfry@mala.proteus.qc.ca (Ranfry) writes:
-
- > In <B4okwB2w165w@tcscs.UUCP> tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood
- >
- > >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.
- >
- > Excuse me, but no, if you run a Windows application in OS/2 you WONT have
- > any extra overhead, OS/2 does NOT load Windows, it has its own emulator
- > of Windows 3.0.
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- It's not an emulator. OS/2 uses the actual Windows 3.0 code. Same
- code, same overhead.
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- --
- Pat Berry - Cary, North Carolina, USA | "Somebody has to be the grownups,
- pat@berry.Cary.NC.US | and now it's our turn."
- **** Happy user of OS/2 2.0 **** | -- Dave Barry
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