Subj : Family executables again
To   : Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
From : David Noon
Date : Mon Oct 29 2001 12:16 pm

Hi Jonathan,

Replying to a message of Jonathan de Boyne Pollard to David Noon:

DN>> All 16-bit OS/2 programs could be run natively under NT, as 16-bit,
DN>> protected mode NT *IS* 16-bit OS/2.

JdBP> Er, no.  16-bit NT isn't 16-bit OS/2.

JdBP> There isn't really such a thing as 16-bit Windows NT /per se/.

We are splitting semantic hairs here.

When Microsplat released NT 3.1 they offered a raft of software products
available as proof that NT was the way of the future. Most of these products
MS's own 16-bit OS/2 products: Word; Excel; MASM 5.x/6.0; C/C++ 5.x/6.x/7.0;
FORTRAN 77; COBOL; etc. There were even DLL's for NT to support 16-bit PM
available on MS's ftp servers around 1994 -- probably until MS Office 95 came
out. So, it is really MS's nomenclature that these are 16-bit NT products, when
we all know that they are 16-bit OS/2 software.

However, it is true that there was never a 16-bit API for NT.

Regards

Dave
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