From: muta...@gmail.com   
      
   From memory, OS/2 and others used a type of   
   "LONG" rather than the C90-defined "long".   
      
   That seems like a laughable "abstraction" to me.   
      
   As if one day they are going to go:   
      
   #define LONG short   
      
   and everything will work.   
      
   You need a special way of even printing an abstract   
   type. "%ld" won't cut it if it is not exactly "long".   
      
   But at least theoretically, did "LONG" have any coherent   
   meaning at all?   
      
   Minimum minimums and minimum maximums?   
      
   Were values of this type meant to be retrieved by other   
   APIs, never directly set or retrieved?   
      
   Perhaps it could have even been a typedef struct?   
      
   What were the rules?   
      
   Did the rules help anyone?   
      
   Thanks. Paul.   
      
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