** Quoting Mike Bilow to Joe Negron:

ET> What about the ones after 5.1?  I would assume that they would
  > also (Unless Microsoft got a jealous...).
MB> For marketing and business reasons, Microsoft withdrew OS/2
  > support and development after MASM 5.1 and C 6.0. [...]
JN> MASM, up to v6.00b, supports OS/2.
MB> Try it. :-)
JN> Mike, does MASM 6.0b produce code which will run under OS/2?
MB> Well, yes, but that's not the same thing as supporting OS/2.

OS/2 code is what I meant, though you did say "support".

MB> MASM 4.0 for DOS will produce code that will run under OS/2, after
  > all -- it's just an assembler that makes OBJ modules.  However,
  > MASM changed a lot of syntactical conventions from 5.1 to
  > 6.0, and this broke quite a lot of working assembly code
  > including the OS/2 include files.

Hasn't the same happened with some C/C++ compilers?

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