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echo: os2prog
to: Michael Gleason
from: Keith Thomson
date: 1996-03-19 10:52:16
subject: Why thunk in OS/2? or at all?

Hello Michael!

Friday March 15 1996 22:17, Michael Gleason wrote to All:

 MG> I guess I am going to show how little I still know. But under OS/2 why
 MG> would you want to / need to thunk?

 MG> OS/2 since 2.0 is 32 bit so why do you need to call 16 bit code? Why
 MG> not completely use 32 bit code?

Some code is still 16 bit..  But only in the OS/2 1.0 api's which got
carried forward to 2.X and 3.0, VIO, KBD, and MOU are still 16 bit, they're
used mostly for text-mode applications.

Keith

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