-=> Quoting Daniel Morgan to Paul Person <=-

 DM> Paul Person wrote in a message to Keith Thomson:
 DM> [snip]
 
 PP> You do realize that the Red Book states that the only
 PP> official method of  communicating with the console in a
 PP> command-line OS/2 program is  stdin/stdout? That is,
 PP> KEY/MOU/VIO will never be 32-bit and may not even  function
 PP> if OS/2 1.x support is dropped in the future?`

 DM> Prelogue note: this message I wrote is in no way a flame nor a
 DM> personal insult against you, but merely a disagreement with your views
 DM> on the direction of a superb os. 
 DM> That last statement you said, got me thinking. 

I agree its not a flame. Neither is this. I just want to point out that I 
said nothing about dropping DOS/Windows support, just OS/2 1.x. I agree 
that IBM is going to have problems if it ever drops DOS/Windows support. I 
believe I read something in another echo last fall about the PowerPC 
version doing this, but I could be wrong about it ever being announced and, 
of course, things may have changed since then. It was not a popular idea. 

My understanding of the PowerPC version of OS/2 is limited, but I believe 
the intent is that *all* versions (PowerPC, 80x86, whatever) have the exact 
same abilities. This would imply that dropping OS/2 1.x support, if it 
were to occur on the PowerPC, would also occur on the 80x86. 

I gave up on Dual Boot after using it under OS/2 2.0, but I have no doubt 
that Boot Manager could be used for this purpose. On 80x86 machines, of 
course, unless you have a *very good* 80x86 emulator that can be booted by 
itself on the PowerPC (since neither IBM nor Microsoft is likely to produce 
a PowerPC version of OS/2 1.x). 

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