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Besides, I wasn't saying that Autodesk should abandon Win NT and go for OS/2 instead. What I was saying was that they should, if feasible (i. e. if they don't need any of the esoteric Win32 API calls that aren't on the list that IBM says OS/2 will support), simply make 3DS compatible with both by using just the compatible Win32 API calls. The program would still be a WindowsNT program, not an OS/2 program. It would just be able to run under future versions of OS/2 that support those Win32 API calls (OS/2 Warp right now supports almost the complete Win32s API subset, which means it can run FreeCell and many other programs based on Win32s, which is a subset of Win32 that can be made to "run" ["stroll" would be a better term] under Windows 3.1 [by installing the Win32s VxDs and other components into Win3.1] and supports all significant Win32 features except multithreading). The choice is simple: should Autodesk cut out a significant chunk of their potential market if they don't need to, if it would cost little or nothing to keep that market? I say no.