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In article <j.8ggna@rpi.edu> yee@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Crimson Avenger) writes:
>I am very surprised that IBM is trying to sell OS/2 based on speed.  WHO 
>really cares if Excel for OS/2 outbeat Windows by 30 SECONDS????????????
>
>Give me a break.  OS/2 with the 32 bit mode probably runs some applications
>faster, given that the applications are re-compiled to 32 bit mode.  It's
>the applications that sell the software.  Say, give a 32 bit Excel vs.
>Windows 16 bit Excel and we probably know who will win the speed test.

If the OS is coded with a 32-bit instruction set, speed of task switching,
memory management, file system, etc. will increase, regardless of the
code requesting these services.  In OS/2 2.0, this will apply to DOS,
Windows, and 16- and 32-bit apps.  This is the point IBM was trying to
make.  You will gain a significant increase in speed simply because
the OS finally takes advantage of, until then, latent hardware.  With
32-bit apps, the increase is very significant.
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Jeremy Wohl / wohl@max.physics.sunysb.edu / jwohl@csserv1.ic.sunysb.edu