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IBM has released to ISVs a listing of Win32 (Windows NT, Windows95) API calls (over 1,000 of them) that will be supported in future versions of OS/2 (presumably including the microkernalized Workplace OS and OS/2 for the PowerPC, OS/2 Warp Server, OS/2 Warp SMP, etc. as well as Service Pack upgrades to existing versions of OS/2 Warp and OS/2 Warp Connect). I'm not sure which APIs are included, but it will likely include all of the commonly used ones for general application operation, user interface, file and memory management, etc., plus such Win32- specfic ones as multithreading, OpenGL, etc. Just a suggestion: if 3DSr"5" uses these API calls and doesn't use the ones not on the list, then it will run not only on Windows NT but also under OS/2, which would expand its market. At the present time, OS/2 Warp is outselling Windows NT by a substantial margin in the general PC marketplace, and of course WAY outsells WinNT among 3DS users due largely to the fact that existing versions of 3DSr3 and r"4" that use Phar Lap 386|DOS-Extender run and multitask wonderfully under OS/2 but won't even come up under Windows NT.