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RE: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Richter,Steve
> Sent: Friday, April 28, 2006 12:21 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: RE: The Perpetual Myth of iSeries Obsolescence
> 
> that might have been TopView, which was an IBM product.  
> Windows was GUI based and had little to do with DOS from day 
> 1. I know the win32 APIs of windows 3.1 were DLL based. Not 
> sure what earlier versions of windows looked like to the 
> programmer, but I doubt the method of using software 
> interupts to call into DOS was ever used in Windows.
> 

Dude, you've obviously not be around for a while.

Either that or you are intentionally trying to forget, with good reason,
Windows 1.0 and Windows 2.0.

http://www.fortunecity.com/marina/reach/435//windows.htm#

Charles

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