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From: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: OS/2 vs AmigaDOS
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Date: 30 Apr 89 11:36:45 GMT
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Reply-To: leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson)
Organization: Rick's Home Grown Unix; Portland, OR
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I don't know if it is true or not, but I've heard that one of the
reasons for the size of OS/2 is the DOS compatibility box. It isn't
easy making a real mode program run in protected mode!

Another reason may be that the IBM machines have to do a lot of stuff
in software that the Amiga hands off to hardware. No blitter chips
for example...
-- 
Leonard Erickson		...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard
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