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General Discussion / Re: OS/2 application developers
« on: December 08, 2017, 08:09:05 pm »Because being satisfied with the virtualization of a platform that's no longer being developed only ensures that the platform continues to NOT be developed. It's time to move forward. It's time for OS/2 environments to exist as first class citizens & run natively on current hardware. It's also time for the pool of programmers that're familiar with the platform to expand. We're not going to get new developers to write software for platforms that they consider to be dead. It's time to breath new life into this community. Otherwise, it dies with it's current users -as they eventually die.
There must be some sort of a misunderstanding here, OS/2 will not be developed in the future and has not been developed now for more than 20 years. I was giving a rational alternative for those who want to move forward while still retaining their own software for the time being, rather than take on the mammoth task of emulating the (humongous and outdated) OS/2 API from the outset. And you are contradicting yourself on technical terms, your proposal was emulation, I proposed virtualisation instead, which is a completely different technology.