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Re: OS/2 2.0 is here! (speed of OS/2)

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From: Wim Bonner
Date: Fri, 10 May 1991 02:48
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In article <3888@d75.UUCP> woan@cactus.org writes:
>needs to do is write a killer app for OS/2 that can't be easily done
>on MSDOS or MSDOS/Windows. Hmmm... How about GNU EMACS for OS/2?

Well, I really hate all of the speculation based on OS/2 2.0, partly because
I'm still running OS/2 1.3 on my fastest machine - a 10mhz286, but
When OS/2 2.0 comes out things like Emacs will be easier t port to OS/2
for the simple reason that you can ignore segments and access HUGE data
spaces.   I know I've been thinking I'd love to do that some with my programs
not so much to use lts f space, but t simply nt have t wrry abut near r far 
pinters.

I think I read that the reasn Emacs had nt been ported t Os/2 was because 
it seemed too hard to deal with segments.

Wim.
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From: wbonner@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (Wim Bonner)
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Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 is here! (speed of OS/2)
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Date: 10 May 91 02:48:53 GMT
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