Subj : Project Odin
To   : Stephen Hayes
From : Charles Cruden
Date : Sat Feb 03 2001 04:33 pm

> From what I have heard, it is continuing development of OS/2.

No.

> I wondered if that was true, and if so, what one could exepct in future.

Odin is an attempt to implement the Win32 API in OS/2.  In so doing, you can
then run 32-bit native Windows programs under OS/2.  IBM started it with the
Open32 specification, which emulated a lot of the Windows calls under OS/2:
it's since been expanded to include the current new additions, and with the
more Windows-like memory architechture in FP13+ of Warp 4 (and whatever it is
in Warp 3), you can even get things like Word and Excel running, with a few
caveats.  Of course, they've got a tough job keeping up with the sheer number
of APIs Microsoft churn out, and getting them to react *exactly* the same way
the MS ones do.  (Gotta love undocumented API features.)

I use it to read Windows help files under OS/2 when programming.

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