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In message <o9q6xoHpvyFd091yn@skypoint.com> - rsteiner@skypoint.com (Richard
Steiner)15 Jul 1996 16:26:07 -0500 writes:
:>
:>Here in comp.os.os2.apps, sms@splicer.com spake unto us, saying:
:>
:>>Sorry, but this is a problem with a limitation in Warp's DOS emulation 
:>>that IBM has given up on trying to fix. I'd be real interested to see 
:>>whether or not Photoshop 3.0 runs under Merlin.
:>
:>The 512MB limit in VDMs was (as I understand it) an intentional design
:>decision on IBM's part to make addressing more efficient for 16-bit apps,
:>but the method Microsoft used to implement that API call just happens to
:>be incompatible with the 512MB limit.
:>
:>My own guess is that IBM is still unwilling to break existing 16-bit
:>applications by changing that stuff in Merlin, and that Photoshop 3.0
:>will continue to fail to work under WinOS2 until Adobe decides to use
:>an alternate method in Photoshop or port it as a native application.
:>
:>-- 
:>-Rich Steiner  >>>--->  rsteiner@skypoint.com  >>>---> Bloomington, MN
:>      Written offline using PC Yarn + Yep + FTE under OS/2 Warp
:>      I am Al of Borg.  Aww, Peg, I assimilated you last year..

According to a post 2 weeks ago, quoting from the printed material that
accompanied Merlin Beta, Photoshop 3.0 and Visual Foxpro STILL do not run in
Merlin. There was one other app mentioned, but I don't remember the name of
it. Some Road Atlas software from MS, I believe.

Daniel Casey          Doesn't "Microsoft" Mean
Team OS/2             "Small & Limp"?
IBM BESTeam
daniel@in.net