LE>> Let's not forget that the Windows equivalent of OS/2 text

 LE>> mode is DOS. You can write a multithreaded 32-bit text-mode

 LE>> program under OS/2. You can't under DOS unless you write

 MB> It's actually not hard to write a "console" application
under Windows in



Windows NT, yes. Win+DOS, which is what I meant there, it's a lot harder.
There is a "defined" API for DOS progs to bonk Windows, but it's
cumbersome in the extreme. Text-mode apps under NT are just... text-mode
win32apps ! Very similar to OS/2.



 MB> Windows apps to 32-bit OS/2 than it was to port 16-bit Windows apps to



It was a total pain in the rear, involving vast quantities of rewriting,
and products which were the same only in name. You have to have the deepest
respect

for Watcom, wherein the IDEs across platforms behave identically. Must have
been a phenomenal engineering effort.



 MB> anything.  The Developer API Extensions (DAPIE, formerly DAX) should make



I can't wait. I just hope Watcom includes whatever additional files are
required for it with their C/C++ package.



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