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From: mcdonald@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
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Subject: Re: An advertisement I'd like to see
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Date: 22 Sep 88 14:39:00 GMT
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Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!mcdonald    Sep 22 09:39:00 1988


This is somewhat off the topic, but I saw an interesting thing
at an IBM "product fair" at our university on Monday: IBM'ers
wearing T-shirts and blue jeans. (Most T shirts were orange and blue...
wonder why.) Anyway, one guy was wearing a suit (but no tie). He
informed me that OS/2 fully supported the native 32-bit protected
mode of the 80386, and indeed that OS/2 was really INTENDED to 
be for the 386 and only supported the 286 "as an extra bonus".
I asked him if there were any compilers that would generate 32bit
code, both 32 bit integers and 32bit linear address pointers.
He showed me a book and pointed to IBM's C/2 compiler, and said 
it was just what I needed. 

OK, knowledgeable folks out there on the net, am I correct that
there is something terribly wrong with his description of OS/2?

Doug McDonald

P.S. The guy gave me his card. His title is 
"Area Marketing Support Representative
North Central Marketing Division".