JdBP> OS/2 Warp would be much more useful *without* this kludge, 
 JdBP> because programs could then use a combination of PM and text-mode 
 JdBP> if they wanted to.  

Of course, when one remembers that Presentation Manager was originally
co-written by Microsoft in OS/2 version 1.2, and that (a) there was a big push 
for programs to be *solely* graphical when PM first appeared, and (b)
Microsoft Windows didn't (because of massive architectural problems in the
design) allow programs to use both textual and graphical user interfaces, one
wonders how much this kludge was implemented *solely and specifically* in
order to prevent programmers from doing exactly this on OS/2.  After all, it
nannys the OS/2 programmers into not writing combined textual/graphical
programs, and it prevents an embarrassing deficiency in DOS-Windows from being 
shown up by OS/2 by artificially making OS/2 have the same deficiency.

One wonders.

 ¯ JdeBP ®

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