JG>    I guess that I'm just tired of hearing people apologize JG>for
IBM's unwillingness to spend development resources on getting JG>rid of
the last 16-bit vestiges of OS/2 dating back to 1.0. IBM

 RC>     I used to think the same as you until I learnt 
 RC> more about these things.

I've been hoping to see the same admission from Jeff,  but I'm not holding
my breath :-).

 RC> If the system bus is 16bit (ISA) and the devices are 8 
 RC> or 16 bit then there
 RC> is generaly no great benefit to 32bit device drivers.  Most OS/2 device
 RC> drivers fall into this category.

This is one issue,  the other is that you would never have a 0:32 PDD model
on a stable os -- it is 16:32 (ie: ring 0 PDD's still need to deal with
selectors just as much as a 16:16 dd).


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