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to: Adam Flinton
from: Robert Comer
date: 2002-10-30 09:25:06
subject: Re: Report from Memphis (on/off topic)

From: "Robert Comer" 

> Wow "IBM NewsReader/2 2.0"....long time no see.....

That was just handy, so I used it.  Not all that bad for being so old --
VERY fast compared to modern stuff. 

> I loved PMMail & News.......

I had both, but I didn't want to bother setting them up again.

- Bob Comer


"Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
news:3dbfa818{at}w3.nls.net...
> Wow "IBM NewsReader/2 2.0"....long time no see.....
>
>
> Adam
>
>  wrote in message news:3dbf4350$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > Well, you made me boot into OS/2 to see.  GC was fully 32-bit as of
> version 2.1, and there was a couple of versions after that...
> >
> > - Bob Comer 
> >
> > In , Bill Lucy
>  writes:
> > >I'm in awe because Robert Comer says...
> > >> The Golden Compass that I used wasn't 16-but that i remember -- it
was
> a
> > >> native OS/2 app.  (I can check it out if needed, I still
have an OS/2
> > >> booting machine. 
> > >
> > >I'm pretty sure it ran 16-bit, because I remember the thunking layer
> being there.
> > >
> >
>
>

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