Re: OS/2 dead? Uh, no. read this.

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From: John Thompson
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 1997 00:00

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In <RwiKzoHpvKzM092yn@skypoint.com>, rsteiner@skypoint.com (Richard Steiner) writes:

>Win95 is decent enough (*certainly* better than Win 3.1), and may have
>some application advantages, but it's FAR too limited as an environment
>in a number of areas that I'm used to.  I think *it* really needs a 32-
>bit command line, you know?

Just curious (I've never used Win95); what advantage does a 
command line get by being 32-bit?  Come to think of it, isn't 
OS/2's CMD.EXE still a 16-bit app?  (I use 4OS2/32, which is 
32-bit myself)

-John (John.Thompson@ibm.net)

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