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Source: Steve Wendt, http://www.os2bbs.com/OS2News/OS2News.html
Reply-to: stevew@hartnell.cc.ca.us
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The rumors about Opera/2, Opera Software's OS/2 version of their popular
web browser, being Open32-based were true. The following is from Opera's
"Project Magic" web page, http://www.operasoftware.com/alt_os.html:

"OS/2: first of all, we will soon have an official announcement but I'd
like to give you some 'bytes' right now. A British Columbia-based company
called Binary Concepts, Inc. will be writing the port for OS/2. I spoke to
Arthur Lee, of Binary Concepts, last night, and he said that the first
stage is to provide an Open32-based version of Opera, which will be
replaced/converted over time into a solid and native OS/2 version, and I
believe that this is the right way to do it anyway. Quick results but with
better prospects as the program evolves."

'Open32' is IBM's Open32 programming library, which is designed to make
the job of porting a program from Windows to OS/2 much easier by providing
over 700 OS/2 APIs compatible with some of the most common in Windows.
Open32 has been criticized in the past for producing large and slow
software (The first version of OS/2's Netscape and Lotus SmartSuite were
developed using Open32), but many OS/2 developers say things have improved
since then.

For more information about Opera Software, see http://ww.operasoftware.com




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