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- From: tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood)
- Newsgroups: comp.bbs.waffle
- Subject: Re: Update on Helldiver
- Message-ID: <NioNwB3w165w@tcscs.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 31 Dec 92 11:47:58 CST
- References: <g1bQrAeMBh107h@mala.proteus.qc.ca>
- Reply-To: zeta%tcscs@src.honeywell.com
- Organization: TCS Consulting Services
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- ranfry@mala.proteus.qc.ca (Ranfry) writes:
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- > 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. You are correct about not being able to use OS/2's full
- > potential, that is another good reason to use an OS/2 version.
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- As it stands, to run a windows app, it has to load WIN-OS2. If you migrate
- your ap to OS/2 desktop it still loads a form of WinOS/2.
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