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- Subject: Re: More Biased Reviews From ZD
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- Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1992 12:35:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul21.203539.16323@njitgw.njit.edu>
- dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
-
- >>I'd like to pose you a question. Supposing that Windows 3.1 currently runs
- >>just fine on my system. (It does.) Further suppose that I have no trouble
- >>with stability with it. (I don't.) Further suppose that I run almost only
- >>Windows applications. (I do.) Given these conditions, what can I gain by
- >>moving to OS/2?
- >
- >The better multitasker. I don't know about you, but while doing
- >ZMODEM downloads in Windows 3.1, I can't do much in other applications
- >without causing large amounts of tramsission errors. Sometimes, they
- >lock my Windows-based terminal program, forcing be to CTRL-ALT-DEL in
- >order to get it out of memory. True, under Windows 3.0, I'd have to
- >reboot to do this, but under OS/2, I don't get the errors in the first
- >place.
-
- Well, since you asked.....<g>. I use Procomm Plus for Windows, and have
- absolutely no trouble with v.32bis downloads while using any of my other
- applications. Perhaps you should give "the latest and best" comm program
- a try.
-
- >instance, I like to work with 2 or 3 command prompts open at once.
- >Under Windows, three DOS boxes will usually kill the system - so I
- >don't do that any more. Windows doesn't crash - but only because I've
- >changed my style for it.
- >
- >The OS shouldn't force you to change the way you'd like to work.
-
- It doesn't force me to change. Personally, I avoid command prompts when
- at all possible, as I find them to be the least efficient way for me to
- do the things I do. To each his own, however, and if OS/2 is what you
- need, then by all means go to it. I'm just trying to point out that
- Windows is a perfectly adequate solution for myself and many others.
-
- >>I own a copy of OS/2 and have spent quite a few hours using it to get a feel
- >
- >Have you tried using it to run your Windows apps? Even in full-screen
- >WIN-OS2 sessions, you're probably better off. You'll get the improved
- >memory management, VDM support, and you won't need DOS or Windows on
- >your hard drive.
-
- Yes, I've tried it, and found it somewhat lacking compared to real
- Windows. The only way to take advantage of OS/2's protection is to run
- each Winapp in it's own copy of WinOS2, which means waiting nearly forever
- (at least thats what it seems like) for each to load, and another eternity
- when switching between the two. If you want the speed of real Win, you
- have to give up the protection, in which case you might as well be running
- the real Windows.
-
- >What OS/2 apps are "last years" apps? Only the ones from Microsoft.
- >And this is because Microsoft has pledged themselves to the eventual
- >destruction of OS/2.
- >
- >Many other companies have continued their support of OS/2 and OS/2
- >applications. For instance, the DeScribe word processor. True, much
-
- Which is almost laughable when compared to W4W or AmiPro (IMO). I'll
- turn this question around and ask which OS/2 apps *aren't* last years
- apps other than DeScribe.
-
- >of the OS/2 applications are OS/2 1.x apps, but most of the Windows
- >apps currently for sale are Windows 3.0 apps, so there's no effective
- >difference.
-
- Au contraire. New Windows applications such as W4W, Excel, AmiPro,
- Procomm Plus for Win, etc, are the latest in software technology.
-
- >You make many blanket assumptions here. Who says that the current
- >crop of Windows applications are the best available? Latest doesn't
- >mean a thing - I still develop applications with Microsoft C 6.0,
- >because version 7 - the "latest" version - is crippled with respect to
- >OS/2 development.
-
- Sorry, I'm a user, not a developer, so perhaps you and I are using
- different types of applications. IMO, the latest Windows applications
- are among the most powerful yet easy to use programs that have been
- developed to date. Again, that's just my opinion, but then so is
- everything else I've written, so no big deal....
-
- >And your argument will also apply to NT whenever it gets to market.
-
- Who said anything about NT? I'm talking about OS/2 and running Windows
- applications. Windows does it better, in my opinion, and I see no
- advantage to moving to OS/2.
-
- Brian.
-