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to: Gerard Gerritsen
from: Erik Huelsmann
date: 1996-08-17 08:23:12
subject: 32bit VIO

Replying to a message of Gerard Gerritsen to Erik Huelsmann:

Hello Gerard!
 GG> Saturday August 10 1996, Erik Huelsmann writes to Geir_Eivind Mork:

 GG> [ VIO..]

 EH>> Yes it is. It was considered obsolete when introducing PM/WPS, but I
 EH>> think they reconsidered that. Anyway, because it was obsolete they
 EH>> never made a 32-bit api for it, since nobody was supposed to use it
 EH>> anyway...
 GG> There is a 32 bits api for VIO by now. ( on DevCon, though it is still
 GG> a wrapper now )

Much later, when it became obvious people were still writing VIO apps and
the need for a VIO api existed on OS/2 PPC, they redecided, they made a
32-bit api. But they didn't at first.


Bye, Erik!
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