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#HyperChem under OS/2

    29-Jul-92 12:32:20
Fm: Tom Slee [Hypercube] 70761,3021
To: Joe MacRae 76702,1302
John, We don't have OS/2 here in house, but my current impression is that most enhanced-mode Windows apps (which HyperChem is) will not run under OS/2. Further, the computational part of the program is 32-bit arithmetic, which I believe (rumour again) is not supported by OS/2. I certainly do not want to get into OS/2 vs Windows wars, but the claim by IBM to be a "Better Windows than Windows" and the suggestion that it will run all Windows apps is simply not true. This is not a reflection of HyperChem, except in that it is a product that, by using 32-bit mathematics, uses many facilities of Windows. HyperChem will not run in a DOS window, of course, unless you can get enhanced mode Windows running in that window, which I very much doubt. Tom Slee