MB>Paul Rider wrote in a message to Mike Bilow:

MB> PR> What would be the advantage of a 16 bit os/2 app ? A little
MB> PR> bit faster code I guess ?

MB>There are several advantages to 16-bit OS/2 code.  Some OS/2 components, suc
MB>as physical device drivers, must be 16-bit, so you need a compiler that make
MB>16-bit code.

There is no reason (other than historical) that device drivers need be
limited to 16-bit code.  It would appear that OS/2 (at least the 2.1x
versions) retained a fair amount of low-level code from OS/2 1.x.

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