On Sat, 12 Jun 2004 10:30:04 -0700 (PDT), Keith Myers wrote:

>Aha! So that is what the issue is about.  I guess that at this stage of
processor 
>and operating system development, I guess we should expect to have problems 
>with "old" real mode applications.  We're supposed to be
moving on to 64 bit 
>apps anyway, right?

That will never happen with OS/2.  A processor running in 64-bit mode can switch 
to 32-bit mode, but not to 16-bit mode.  There's still too much 16-bit OS/2 code 
(including most drivers) to even consider it.


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