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From: murillo@sigi.Colorado.EDU (Rodrigo Murillo)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: OS/2 under UNIX futures
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Date: 2 Mar 88 06:26:18 GMT
References: <340004@hpsrli.HP.COM> <20246@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <739@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU>
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In <739@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> brunke@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Jim Brunke) writes:

>ATT is working on such at project now to run on their new 386 machines.
>That is about all I have heard.  (Obviously something that is OS/2 compatible
>will also be DOS compatible)

OS/2 and DOS applications are NOT generally compatible.  And you can bet that
any OS/2 implementation of UNIX will have to use OS/2 specific calls, making it
totally incompatible with DOS!

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