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From: spolsky-joel@cs.yale.edu (Joel Spolsky)
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Subject: Re: Graphics on Windows 3.0 and PM
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Date: 8 Sep 90 15:20:56 GMT
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In article <4335@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Kai-Uwe Rommel) writes:
>
>The Software Migration Kit from MS should allow you to port Windows apps
>to PM with special libraries but for one or two programmers maintaining
>a Windows app it is rather difficult to create such two-system-programs
>themselves without such support. I did not yet see the SMK but heard
>rumors that it is included with the WIndows 3.0 SDK. Is this true?


No, the SDK includes a coupon to buy the Software Migration Kit for
$150. However you should beware; the SMK in its current state is in
"alpha" state; it has hundreds if not thousands of bugs and hardly
ever works. It is also MUCH slower than native Windows apps, like 2-3
times slower, not just 10% slower. I would tend to shy away from this
non-product for a long time.

OS/2 Version 2.0, says Bill Gates, will run Windows Applications
unmodified. For this reason it might be a long time before OS/2 2.0 is
really out....



Joel Spolsky
spolsky@cs.yale.edu                                        Talk Hard.
disclaimer: i speak for nobody!