Hello Jonathan!

On 27-12-95 15:16 Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote to Coridon Henshaw:

 JdBP>   Inside jokes aside, though, why not ?  It shouldn't be that 
 JdBP> hard to
 JdBP>   provide a subset of the Presentation Manager API that works 
 JdBP> on other
 JdBP>   platforms.  It's *certainly* not hard to implement the 
 JdBP> "Family API"
 JdBP>   subset of the Control Program API in DOS and DOS+Windows.

But what good would that do? Most developers are writing for Windows, so
IBM should make it easier for them to port their applications to OS/2, not
make it easier to port OS/2 apps to Windows.

Eelco.

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