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echo: os2prog
to: Mike Bilow
from: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
date: 1996-03-27 10:07:16
subject: Why thunk in OS/2? or at

MB>
  > Using certain older features of OS/2 which remain 16-bit in
  > OS/2 2.x, such as the Vio/Mou/Kbd API services, will
  > require thunking, even when writing new 32-bit programs.
MB>

  One of the things that is a *must* for OS/2 Merlin is the addition of
  the 32-bit VIO/KBD libraries from the DevCon. This will eliminate
  90% of all people's needs for thunking, in my experience.

  It will also make Merlin-specific text-mode executables smaller (no
  thunking code and no 16:16 alias memory objects in the EXE).

  > JdeBP <
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