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From: jwohl@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Jeremy Wohl)
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Subject: Win3 in OS/2 2.0 ... pcweek says ...
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Date: 26 Mar 91 19:38:02 GMT
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pcweek (mar. 25) states:

1) IBM was unsatisfied by Microsoft's decision to drop BCL and go with the
porting libraries (WLO).  First releases of WLO were not up to IBM's specs
anyway: slow, buggy, etc.
2) Via the MS<->IBM cross-licensing agreement, IBM will not have a converting
layer in OS/2 2.0 (win api into pm api), but will put Win 3.0 code directly
into the virtual Dos machine.  When a Win3 app is launched, it will launch
a Dos machine and execute it in a direct, native fashion.  I assume this
will get rid of BCL's speed problem.
-- 
Jeremy Wohl / wohl@max.physics.sunysb.edu / jwohl@csserv1.ic.sunysb.edu