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- >> 1) IFS--Windows 95 and NT 4.0 (Not sure about 3.51) use an
- >> Installable File System. This was, ALL programs can read from Mac
- disks.
-
- >I'll fill in some of the OS/2 holes. :-) This would apply as well to
- >OS/2, since it also uses installable filesystems.
-
- In a previous post I mentioned that OS/2's current IFS system cannot
- support
- Mac volumes because disk info on HFS isn't where it's expected by this old
- IFS
- design. The good news is that OS2 PowerPC edition does use a completely
- new
- and cool IFS system developed with Sun... who knows where we'll see that
- IFS
- system on Intel, though.
-
- >> 4) Cut & Paste -- You'll beable to share information via the Clipboard
- >> with Mac and PC programs.
-
- >Ditto. OS/2 shares the clipboard between its own native programs and
- >(optionally) with Win16 programs as well.
-
- Yep.
-
- >> 5) Fonts -- Windows and OS/2 support True Type Fonts.
-
- >Actually, OS/2 only supports TrueType in Windows sessions -- native PM
- >programs use Adobe Type 1 fonts. Rumor has it that the next version of
- >OS/2 (aka "Merlin") will support TrueType, but it's not certain.
-
- This is extremely likely as at least one internation version of Warp
- (Chinese I
- think) already supports TrueType fonts in PM. Also, OS/2 PowerPC supports
- TrueType in PM.
-
- >> 6) Control Panels -- The way Windows uses control panels is this. A
- >> singe CPL file can represent many different applets. ARDI can make
- >> a CPL file that searches for Mac control panels and then displays icons
- >> for those, making settings for both the PC and Mac work together
- >> seamlessly.
-
- >OS/2 doesn't have a control panel per se, but it uses a number of WPS
- >object classes for configuration purposes. It's a little different,
- >and I think would serve the purpose well. In fact, were one to be
- >extremely optimistic about the porting effort <g>, bits of Executor
- >could even be implemented as WPS objects. :-)
-
- How about as a system service on the IBM Microkernel? That would be
- truly cool... Mac apps, Win apps, DOS apps & OS2 apps all on one desktop.
-
- >> 8) Same Desktop -- All programs can run on the same desktop. Windows,
- >> OS/2, and Mac (Especally true with OS/2 for Windows or OS/2 with
- >> Windows)
-
- >Yes. Being able to run GraphicConvertor 2.4 in a seamless manner here
- >on the OS/2 desktop would be REALLY neat!!! :-)
-
- Amen! Same with SuperPaint 3.5!
-
- >> 9) DirectX. Video/Sound/Networking are all much **FASTER** when using
- >> these APIs, thus improving preformance to or above a DOS machine with
- >> the same hardware.
-
- >You bet. The Warp equivelents are DIVE/ENDIVE.
-
- Yep.
-
- >> 10) Virtual Memory -- Executor currently has the limit of NO virtual
- >> memory. Win95 has an dynamic swap file that grows/shrinks with use.
- >> Executor can report the maxinum amount of memory a 68040 (and in
- >> the future, PPC) can handle, and thus no memory problems.
-
- >My Warp setup has a LOT of virtual memory (I have a dedicated 1GB
- >partition devoted to it, and the "GB" above isn't a typo <VBSEG>).
-
- 1GB? Geez, and I thought I was bad with 250MB.
-
- >And to say Win95 runs on top of DOS. You don't know much about the
- >system your insulting do you?
-
- No comment.
- Ed Deans
- TeamOS2
-
-