Subj : Re: Best OLMR for Windows
To   : George Lagergren
From : Scott Jones
Date : Wed Nov 01 2000 01:57 pm

-=> George Lagergren wrote to William Mcbrine <=-

 WM> differences are more obvious to a programmer than to an end-user... The
 WM> distinction between native console apps and DOS programs is clearer in
 WM> OS/2, partly because they use separate shells. (And in Unix, you can't
 WM> even run DOS programs without invoking a special emulator.)

 GL>     IOW, the OS/2 OS has two different processes to run either:
 GL>     1.) a 16-bit real mode (old DOS) text-based app pgm or
 GL>     2.) a 32-bit protected mode text based (console app) app pgm?

No, it's more like:

1)  A Virtual DOS Machine (VDM) to run DOS apps, whether 16-bit, 32-bit
(ala DOS4GW), text or graphics-based (the Win-OS/2 subsystem rides on top
of a VDM; as well, one can run many graphical DOS games such as Quake or
Doom in a VDM).

2)  A native CLI that will run either 16- or 32-bit OS/2 apps, real or
protected mode, mostly text, with a sprinkling of curses-based apps such
as MultiMail or graphic apps such as XFree86/2.


Scott
(sjones@crosswinds.net)

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