In this case, that's part of the problem. But, what incentive was there for Win16 developers to go to Win32. Certainly Win16 apps lack certain features in OS/2 as well as Win32 (95 and NT).
For OS/2, I think that the benefits of OS/2 did not provide an incentive for people to start buying OS/2 on their desktops. On 24 Jun 2002 at 17:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Right. One of the causes of the failure of OS/2 is widely considered to > be the fact that it ran Win16 programs so well, it gave vendors no incentive > to port their applications to the native OS/2 API. -- Jerry Feldman Enterprise Systems Group Hewlett-Packard Company 200 Forest Street MRO1-3/F1 Marlboro, Ma. 01752 508-467-4315 http://www.testdrive.compaq.com/linux/ ***************************************************************** To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *****************************************************************
