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From: d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se (Mikael Wahlgren)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 Beta and Windows binaries
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Date: 2 May 91 14:52:32 GMT
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In article <1991May1.222608.8493@watserv1.waterloo.edu> tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) writes:
>Does the current OS/2 2.0 beta version include the BCL (Binary Compatability
>Layer) for running Windows binaries directly, or do Windows apps have to be
>run inside a DOS box (and thus in real mode)?  Or is there any official word
>from IBM on whether the first 2.0 commercial release will have this, or
>whether it'll be in something like 2.1?

The OS/2 2.0 beta previous available at the Atlanta IBM BBS was the .123
release that Microsoft released earlier.

IBM demonstrated some different OS/2 2.0 versions some weeks ago, which each
of them contained some important features, like the BCL (but wasn't called 
BCL), ability to boot different DOS versions in the DOS-boxes, new graphics
look.  They didn't have an OS/2 2.0 version that had ALL of these features,
but rather three versions that each of them had ONE of these.  This is
because IBM have different developement teams that each of them are
responsible for different features, and that should be merged into one
single version before release.

None of these versions have been available outside IBM.

My conclusion is that the first release of OS/2 2.0 from IBM, WILL include
BCL, DOS boot capability, new graphics look and so on.

Mikael Wahlgren      d9mikael@dtek.chalmers.se