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- From: v053qpgh@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (Eric W Sarjeant)
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- Subject: Re: OS/2 Crashproof? NOT!
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 04:52:00 GMT
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- In article <BxoLpL.C3p@news.iastate.edu>, TW.FY4@isumvs.iastate.edu (Timothy I Miller) writes...
- >In article <1992Nov13.164155.14309@msc.cornell.edu>,
- >tommy@msc.cornell.edu (Mike Thompson) writes:
- >>
- >>Are others getting as frustrated with the OS/2 environment as I. Or have I
- >>just been spoiled by the relative stability of large UNIX environments. As I
- >>said at the beginning, I am working with a company to put out a 32 bit app.
- >>But I am getting so frustrated that I wonder if its really worth the continued
- >>effort.
- >
- > I'm not a programmer, but I sincerely appreciate you trying to
- >put out software in the barren wasteland of OS/2 applications. From
- >what I've heard from others on this and other bboards, programmers
- >have had some difficulties programming for OS/2. As a user, though,
- >I have been extremely happy about the lack of crashes on my machine
- >(even without the SP) and others have also been impressed with OS/2.
- > Once again, thanks for trying to put out a native OS/2 app.
- >
- >Timothy Miller
-
- I am in a similar situation, and I definitely second this motion. OS/2 is
- much more stable than any PC multitasking platform I have played with so far.
- DESQview was fairly reliable, but the settings tended to be confusing
- and programs were not always multitasking. Windows was nice, but 3.0 was
- ridden with UAE's and 3.1 gives me more GPF's than I can shake a stick at.
- What's even more discouraging, as soon as you get a GPF, just about every
- subsequent currently running application will suffer a similar fate.
-
- It's horrible to watch each application close -- one after the other -- with
- no immediate means to check the loss of all your current work in process.
- Ultimately the user is left with an empty desktop, and you can double click
- until your finger turns blue but nothing is going to change your crippled
- system. These GPF's can crop up just by starting a DOS prompt, yet this is
- one of the most popular ways to multitask today?
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