JN> Nobody is doubting that the Windows market is larger than the OS/2
  > market.  I, however, *am* doubting that, for PB Inc., at least, that
  > the Windows market is more *profitable* than the OS/2 market - being
  > a small fish in an ocean compared to being a big fish in a small
  > pond and all of that, you know.
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JN>That's an interesting scenario you paint there, but I've seen no
  >indication from PowerBASIC that they have plans on going that route.
  >I also have doubts that there is a pressing business need for an
  >OS/2-Windows cross platform compiler.
  Joe, no argument here. ...BUT, I just hope that PowerBasic will continue
  their fine upgrades to the DOS "jobbie" they have.  I have v3.2 and
  am on the fasttrack (or whatever it's called) and personally cannot
  wait for the 3.3 to see the light of day.  I would like for the
  folks at PB to offer beta upgrade patches via FTP to allow us brave souls
  to upgrade a copy of the latest "official" version (now 3.2, of course)
  to beta test their new ideas for them.  We're here.
  rtPATCH, or some company like that, has a method of patching a file
  you already have with new upgrades and/or code changes, so that
  "evil" people who don't own a legit copy of the 3.2 cannot DL the
  FTP Patch and gain benefit from it.  Patches could be very small,
  I'm thinking in the 50k region of "smallness".
  Comments to this -from others besides you- Joe, are welcome -but
  comments to Bob Z and Dave N would prolly be better on this subject.
  I thought OS/2 would take the world by "storm". I Joined an OS/2 users
  group here in Raleigh of 130 members.  Then that WIN95 "thing" came
  out and has muddied up the water for me.  I have to run WIN 3.1 at
  work on 150 PC's but WIN95 keeps barking at my back door.  I haven't
  let it in as yet, but it keeps barking.  All the new PC's sold in
  the area have WIN95 on them, "none" have OS/2.  Even the refurbished
  PC's at the IBM OUTLET MALL at the airport have WINdoze installed on
  them instead of OS/2.  I know that OS/2 WARP is the better OS of the
  two (ie OS/2 vs. DOS7+WIN95)... but $$ is $$.
  As long as I can run my PB3.2 programs in a DOS window or from an
  icon in WIN3.1, I'll be happy as a frog eating flies on a June night.
  That's this 53 year old "boy's" opinion.  Your mileage may vary.
  Oh, and Thank you for all the code you have supplied to all of us
  freely which we borrow and use in our "projects"  Please don't stop.
  Peace.
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