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- From: jurlwin@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU (Jeff Urlwin)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 NOT 32 Bit?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.135019.20143@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU>
- Organization: University of Maine, Department of Computer Science
- References: <1992Dec17.014016.14071@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <92352.112713ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET> <724884108rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 13:50:19 GMT
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- In article <724884108rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org> rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel) writes:
- >In article <92352.112713ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET> ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET writes:
- >>You are right and they are wrong. There are _some_ parts that are 16Bit. Though
- >>the only one I know of was the old (GA Version) graphics engine. Since the
- >>service pack it is 32Bit. OS/2 has the old APIs for 16 apps and perhaps the
- >>texmode I/O functions are 16Bit code. But as I understand IBM wants to move
- >>to PM-only operation, so it would be logical not to change that to 32Bit code.
- >
- >Actually, more parts of PM are still 16-bit, such as the Window
- >Manager and apparently also the GPI. They will be converted to 32-bit
- >over the next year, as far as I know.
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- Add to that HPFS.IFS. It's still 16 bit for GA stuff. Lan Man (or something
- similar) had an HPFS386.IFS, which had/has a BUNCH of extra features useful
- in multiuser situations. The FAT driver, though, has been converted to 32
- bits.
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- Jeff
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