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From: Ari.Huttunen@hut.fi (Ari Juhani Huttunen)
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Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 is here! vs Windows 3.0 vs NeXT/MACH
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Date: 14 May 91 00:04:27 GMT
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In-Reply-To: larrys@watson.ibm.com's message of 8 May 91 18:58:16 GMT

In article <1991May8.190718.12134@watson.ibm.com> larrys@watson.ibm.com (Larry Salomon, Jr.) writes:

>(Sigh) This is getting ridiculous now.  So you think that NT will provide
>this???  NO!!!  NT is simply a way of mapping the Windows, OS/2, VMS, and
>Dos APIs to a common set of kernal functions.  THAT'S IT!  Your file
>formats will still be as incompatible, etc..

Why not just implement Windows and OS/2 on top of Mach? A(n almost) ready
kernel that I've heard is also pretty fast.
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