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Re: Why IBM ports WIN31?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Doug Dotson)
Fri Feb 2 14:39:22 1996
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 1996 13:16:06 -0500 (EST)
From: Doug Dotson <dotson@bud.tate.com>
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
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> I had a question about java porting. I have heard about IBM porting java to
> WIN31.
> Why does IBM port java to WIN31? Isn't this job due to Microsoft?
It's pretty obvious to me. Do you remember when OS/2 Version 2 came out.
IBM claimed that OS/2 ran Windows 3.1 programs better than Windows itself
does. Most OS/2 users are running Windows 3.1 apps since relatively few
apps are available to run directly under OS/2. Porting JAVA to Win3.1 allows
JAVA enabled web bowsers to run under OS/2.
Doug Dotson
dotson@tate.com
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