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Name: Will Harford
Date: May 15, 2000 at 07:16:05 Pacific
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There must be an OS/2 emulation package for NT to run OS/2 Aps on NT. Does anybody have an idea??



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Response Number 1
Name: Andy B
Date: May 22, 2000 at 13:44:15 Pacific
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NT is inherently able to run 16 bit OS/2 VIO applications - but that's all you're gonna get from it.


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Name: Chris
Date: May 23, 2000 at 12:31:33 Pacific
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Check out VM-Ware 2.0 for NT www.vmware.com


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Name: kuri
Date: June 27, 2000 at 03:25:23 Pacific
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I'm looking for VMWare 2.0 Beta that be supported OS/2 as guest operating system.
It was nothing on VMware site.
Does anybody have it?


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Response Number 4
Name: bryan hanks
Date: August 11, 2000 at 15:54:20 Pacific
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im looking for an emulator of os/2 for windows 95/98 anyone know where i can get it


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Response Number 5
Name: Calispell
Date: November 9, 2000 at 20:32:46 Pacific
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NO!! You are NOT going to get OS/2 emulators from VMWare. They have ended their license contract with IBM.


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Response Number 6
Name: Johan Witters
Date: June 22, 2001 at 08:58:29 Pacific
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Never say never, but don't get to excited neither!

Check http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/TechNet/prodtechnol/ntwrkstn/reskit/00_inwrg.asp

"Chapter 28 - OS/2 Compatibility
This chapter describes the OS/2 subsystem in Windows NT. It describes the types of applications that the subsystem currently supports, as well as those that it does not support. It describes the supported, unsupported, and partially supported OS/2 application programming interfaces (APIs). This chapter also describes how the OS/2 subsystem is implemented and the Win32 thunking mechanism.

Running Applications
The OS/2 subsystem allows OS/2 16-bit character-based applications to run directly with Windows NT with essentially no modification...."



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