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- From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (Jeremy Mathers)
- Subject: Re: where should SET name=thing go?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.033741.9938@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- References: <1992Dec14.065220.19796@cdf.toronto.edu> <1992Dec14.151847.17868@midway.uchicago.edu> <Bz9vtp.2uz@knot.ccs.queensu.ca>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 03:37:41 GMT
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- In article <Bz9vtp.2uz@knot.ccs.queensu.ca> calvert@QueensU.CA (John Calvert) writes:
- ...
- >What do you mean here "specific DOS"?
-
- AKA "DOS from Drive A". The feature that allows you to either boot a
- floppy into a window or boot from an image file made with VMDISK
-
- >If CONFIG.SYS is for OS/2, and AUTOEXEC.BAT is for DOS, where is the
- >normal DOS CONFIG.SYS stuff?
-
- My understanding is that DOS device drivers can be put into CONFIG.SYS
- alongside the OS/2 drivers, and that they are sorted out by OS/2 at boot
- time (i.e., Just as apps can be "marked" as to which op sys they are
- intended for, so can device drivers, and that when OS/2 boots, it
- checks each named driver, and only loads the ones marked for OS/2. The
- others are then stored away for use by DOS.) I haven't tested any of
- this, however...
-
- >This would be a very messy way do go. Do IBM people listen to the
- >comp.os.os2.* newsgroups? Will they pick up on the need for a better
- >approach here as an improvement suggestion? Is there an email address
- >for suggestion to IBM? Is there any end to the questions?
-
- My overall impression of OS/2 is that things are done right, but this fact
- is not always obvious. I.e., the dox/explanation lag the implementation.
-
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