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- From: czmax@cats.ucsc.edu (Max C. Pritikin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Information Week: OS/2, one of 1992's Top Products
- Date: 25 Dec 1992 05:06:05 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Santa Cruz
- Lines: 34
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- References: <pathak-231292164232@virtual.mitre.org> <1992Dec23.232638.16561@wam.umd.edu> <1992Dec24.091408.21990@netcom.com>
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- xtifr@netcom.com (Chris Waters) writes:
-
- [ a bunch deleted as there have already been lots of comments]
-
- >>>a DOS file by modem to their home offices in one window while
- >>>simultaneously writing a letter in a Windows word processor. The OS/2
-
- >> A windows user can do the same.
-
- >If he's lucky, and the programs that he's running are well written,
- >and/or if he's using a *real* multitasker, like DESQview, underneath
- >Windows. Otherwise, this will usually be true, but cannot be
- >guaranteed. :-)
-
- Hmm, not that i would guarantee that DESQview could do it. Or that
- os2 could do it, or that unix could do it or that...
-
- A lot of this depends on the hard ware; I'm running OS2 on a
- 386-40 w/ 20 megs of memory and can't really use my 14,400 modem
- with any luck. I'm lacking one cheap $10 part - a 16550.
-
- (now in my case i know what wrong and how to fix it AND what the diff.
- will be, AND that it doesn't matter what OS i run for this problem etc.)
-
- [more stuff deleted (hmm, i'm not ramblind on enough, maybe
- i shouldn't post. :) ]
-
- this post was brought to you by the letters,
- >Chris Waters | the insane don't | "Imaginary guitar notes [...] exist only
- >xtifr@netcom.COM| need disclaimers | in the imagination of the imaginer" --FZ
-
- and the numbers,
- -max
-