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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Going from Win 3.1 to OS/2, worth it???
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.210847.17693@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 21:08:47 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.122545.1@woods.ulowell.edu> <1992Jul22.202916.19852@news.nd.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <1992Jul22.202916.19852@news.nd.edu> Cook.14@nd.edu (R. Kelley Cook) writes:
- >OS/2 will run virtually every DOS program around, except ones that
- >require an extended memory manager besides DPMI. (I.E. Lotus 3.0 doesn't
- >work but Lotus 3.1 does). Other programs that do not work are disk editors,
- >disk compression programs like Stacker and anything else that tries to
- >mess with the disk.
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- Minor correction: while Lotus 1-2-3 3.0 will not work with Windows, it
- will work with OS/2. The DOS version is VCPI and will not work, but
- 1-2-3 3.0 includes a native OS/2 version in the same box. A nice
- spreadsheet.
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