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- From: tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1?
- Message-ID: <c01RVB2w165w@tcscs.UUCP>
- Date: Mon, 14 Dec 92 09:39:59 CST
- References: <1992Dec14.092551.9445@actrix.gen.nz>
- Reply-To: zeta%tcscs@src.honeywell.com
- Organization: TCS Consulting Services
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- Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
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- > In article <62740@mimsy.umd.edu> pr@umiacs.umd.edu (Jesus M. Rodriguez) write
- > >
- > > I am going to post a very stupid question but I have been reading a lot abo
- > > OS/2 2.1. Is OS/2 2.1 going to be another upgrade? Will it be shrink wrap
- > > I am assuming that IBM hasn't changed their policy of FREE upgrades :-)
- >
- > It will be a shrinkwrap update from what I hear. It may also involve an
- > upgrade charge from WinOS/2 3.0 to WinOS/2 3.1 - at Microsoft's insistence.
- >
- > IBM can't give stuff away forever. They have been putting a lot into OS/2
- > development and as a happy - and much impressed - OS/2 user I don't mind
- > putting something back in to ensure a top-class effort in the future.
- >
- I agree to a point. The problem is that even after the wide beta testing that
- IBM did with OS/2 to get it to 2.0, 2.0 left a lot of bugs to work around. In
- some aspects I feel as if I got a late release beta version with 2.0 (I said in
- SOME aspects). For the most part I am very happy with OS/2. There are times
- however when I'm ready to chunk it until it gets more stable. Some of the
- biggest problems is harddrive space. OS/2 runs in its own partition of 42
- megs. I have maybe 1.5 megs of fonts on C as well. Yet even with this I have
- to be EXTRA cautious that my Swapper file doesnt grow too large. I had to
- totally reinstall my entire system and reformat my hard drive (when I had it
- all on one partition so I lost everthing!) because swapper ran out of space
- and the whole system came down hard. I can't print more than a few pages of
- W4W because I dont have the room on the hard drive for it. I can't open a
- Windows session and a DOS session without running down to 1.8 megs on the
- swap drive (normally 4196k swapper.dat, 6460k free on drive). And if I print
- and then swapper grows again, the system dies.
-
- That makes things very difficult on my end. Depending on the charge (if any)
- for the upgrade, I won't be too upset. I like the idea of making Windows
- an option. If they do though, I hope they'll make it possible to load the
- windows from 2.0 disks as well as load the new version. I dont know fi this
- is possible though. MS knows OS/2 means trouble for them, and they are playing
- every nasty deal the can to thwart IBM's OS/2 efforts. I just hope that IBM
- and OS/2 put MS in their place!
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