Why aren't PDD's 32-bit?

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From: Tim W Smith
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 14:05

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Why aren't PDD's (Physical Device Drivers) 32-bit?  I can understand
*allowing* for 16-bit PDD's to allow 1.x PDD's to work with 2.0, but
why aren't new PDD's 32-bit?  Clearly OS/2 2.0 can deal with the
concept of a 32-bit driver, since VDD's (Virtual Device Drivers) are
32-bit.

I assume that some future release of OS/2 will allow 32-bit PDD's.
Has IBM said when that will be?

--Tim Smith

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