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to: ANDY SMITH
from: JONATHAN DE BOYNE POLLARD
date: 1997-10-22 09:30:00
subject: Win32s?

 AS> Yes, any version of Win32s above 1.1 does not work with OS/2. Say
 AS> thank you to Mr Bill Gates for refusing to release the code to IBM..
Win32s up to version 1.25 works with OS/2 Warp 4.  The problem with Win32s 
version 1.30 is that it was altered to require a logical address range of 
greater than 512MB, which OS/2 (for various reasons) cannot currently 
provide.  
Some people suspect that this change was deliberate on the part of Microsoft. 
 The old Microsoft adage back in the version 2.x and 3.x days was "DOS ain't 
done until Lotus 1-2-3 won't run", and the fact that Win32s development was 
halted at version 1.30 (precisely as soon as it stopped working on OS/2) is a 
suspect coincidence that hints that a similar motto was perhaps influential 
here.
 ¯ JdeBP ®
--- FleetStreet 1.19 NR
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