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echo: os2prog
to: Keith Thomson
from: Allan Mertner
date: 1996-08-27 10:26:04
subject: Re: Speed Pascal

Hej Keith!

Thursday August 15 1996, Keith Thomson writes to Allan Mertner:

 KT> yeah....  VP is nice that way, cept you need to clean up the thunking a
 KT> bit. (of course, SP needs to add thunk calls :)

What do you mean by "clean up the thunking"?  I don't think it
needs any cleaning...

 AM>> Yet another area where the innards of OS/2 could use some brushing
 AM>> up, unfortunately.

 KT> Ohh..  not really, They just need to add DLL's that do Console mode using
 KT> 32 bit calls instead of 16 bit.

That's what I mean - and that is brushing up, imo.  The code is written in
Microsoft 6 v6, and needs to be rewritten to 32 bit and recompiled using a
modern compiler...

Yours,
Allan

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