jwohl@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Jeremy Wohl) (03/27/91)
pcweek (mar. 25) states: 1) IBM was unsatisfied by Microsoft's decision to drop BCL and go with the porting libraries (WLO). First releases of WLO were not up to IBM's specs anyway: slow, buggy, etc. 2) Via the MS<->IBM cross-licensing agreement, IBM will not have a converting layer in OS/2 2.0 (win api into pm api), but will put Win 3.0 code directly into the virtual Dos machine. When a Win3 app is launched, it will launch a Dos machine and execute it in a direct, native fashion. I assume this will get rid of BCL's speed problem. -- Jeremy Wohl / wohl@max.physics.sunysb.edu / jwohl@csserv1.ic.sunysb.edu