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Re: OS/2 2.0 APIsDOWN

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From: klimas
Date: Fri, 07 Sep 1990 19:11
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In article <20157@well.sf.ca.us>, feustel@well.sf.ca.us (David Alan Feustel) writes:
> I suspect that there may be some interest in writing OS/2 applications
> using the 1.2 APIs but running on OS/2 version 2.0 since the memory
> management and debugging is (IMHO) better with the 1.2 API. This is
> only true for small applications or applications that can be
> decomposed into small programs where the 64k segments don't cause too
> much aggravation.
> 
> Unfortunately, the 1.2 emulation of version 2.0 is not yet perfect;
> Smalltalk V/PM runs fine on IBM OS/2 v1.2 but dies immediately when
> run on the MS OS/2 v2.0.
	I believe the folks at Digitalk are aware of the incompatibility
	and are preparing an OS/2 2.0 compliant version of Smalltalk/V-PM
	for release (shortly?).
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Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 APIsDOWN
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Date: 7 Sep 90 19:11:31 GMT
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