Dear Jonathan.        <-- Cute start of a letter, right?

In a msg of Onsdag 29. November 1995, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard writes to
Peter Fitzsimmons:

 PF>>
 >> IBM announces availability of Developer API Extensions beta for OS/2
 >> Warp
 PF>>

 JdBP>   I still think that this is completely the wrong route.  What they
 JdBP>   should be doing is providing the OS/2 API on other platforms.

I agree. Now programmers think:
"I don't have to use (or learn) OS/2 programming. I'll just make
Windows programs and recompile them to OS/2 using DAPIE."

On the other hand:
Programmers have to have a little experience with OS/2 programming to port
their programs to OS/2.
But with DAPIE the software companies will have much smaller expenses
porting their Windows programs than before. So now they perhaps will port
them, unlike until now, where most programs only came in Windows versions.


Best regards,
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