OS/2 Warp Have 1,228 Native Applications!!!

 
The OS/2 Alternative pages created and maintened by Don K. Eitner now listing 1,228 current, native OS/2 applications. The update was made last monday, May 24, in The 13th Floor.

The OS/2 Alternative pages show what software is currently available for OS/2 in comparison with what is commonly used on the various Windows platforms (3.x, 95/98, NT). If more than one application is listed in a single cell, it means those apps are more or less similar in power and/or use (or this was the closest fit I could find in the case of an application which defies exact comparisons).

Since this is a list of only current OS/2 applications, a large number of OS/2's total application base is not included. Such applications as Microsoft Word and Excel for OS/2, WordPerfect for OS/2, Corel Draw for OS/2, and PhotoGraphics for OS/2 are no longer sold or supported by their makers. And of course multiple versions of a given application have no place here, Lotus SmartSuite, StarDivision StarOffice, PMView, etc only get a single listing each

All apps listed are native except in the case of a few DOS apps which have graphics front ends that run natively in Windows, so the OS/2 column lists none of the thousands of Win3.x, Win32s, DOS or Java applications which it can run. Also, the Windows column does not list Java or DOS apps since a DOS application is not native Windows. However Win32 console (command line interface) applications are listed because they make direct calls to the Win32 APIs; they are technically Windows applications in the same way OS/2 command line applications are native OS/2 apps. This is one major reason why there aren't more Windows games listed--many of them are DOS-based (Doom, Duke Nukem 3D, Ultima 8, Crash, etc).

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