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echo: os2prog
to: Lewin Edwards
from: George Simon
date: 1995-11-08 22:42:36
subject: Native OS/2 from Native WIN?

On (29 Oct 95) Lewin Edwards wrote to George Simon...

 LE>  GS>      How hard can it be, to take a fully developed Windows
 LE>  GS> application, and port it to OS/2, or vice versa for that matter.
 LE> 
 LE> Harder than it seems. The APIs diverged a long, long, long time ago.
      ..........
 LE> 
 LE> I'm speaking here from the POV of someone who has seen a few simple
 LE> Windows programs, said to employer "Let's port to OS/2" and then
 LE> bitterly regretted it.

     Thanks for the response, I better understand now!

Geo   geosim{at}rochgte.fidonet.org



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