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From: kushner@ux3.lbl.gov (Gary Kushner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: Can you do graphics in OS/2 without using PM?
Summary: VCPI
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Date: 8 Apr 90 00:21:40 GMT
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I don't know that much aboud VCPI, but from what I've read,
it isn't very good technically.  There is no intertask protection.
If one task crashes, it can bring the whole system down.  
This seems to be to be unacceptable to either OS/2 or windows 3.0.

-Gary