MS> Just to drag things vaguely back on-topic...  From what I've read
 MS> here, it seems to me that to program an Intel-based machine, whether
 MS> for DOS, Windows, or OS/2 involves some extensions to C.
 MS> Whereas this is not the case for the Amiga - all the low-level OS
 MS> functions are callable using normal C syntax.  No weird hex
 MS> "interrupt services", no Pascal calling convention, no C++ - the OOP
 MS> system in Intuition, our basic GUI library, was derived from a
 MS> SmallTalk model but was designed for easy access using normal C.
This is not the case for OS/2 or Win32.  Only DOS and Win16 are that 
backward.  :-)
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