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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: Notice! OS2 will Execute Win3 programs Without having to have Win
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- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 14:56:42 GMT
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- In article <C017Kp.A1w@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> mfprf@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Paul R. Falzer) writes:
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- >I am an MS-DOS/MS-WIN user. I suppose that others of my ilk become incensed
- >when they see or hear the mantra, "OS/2. . .OS/2." I do not. Rather, I'm
- >interested in any information or expertise that might help me, or others
- >like me, to solve a problem or to learn something new about the operation
- >and configuration of Microsoft Windows, which runs under a variety of
- >operating systems. Any posting that even minimally meets this standard is
- >just fine with me; but, slings and arrows, beer commercials, and testaments
- >to the power of school spirit are not. Any variation on a theme of "shut
- >your ### mouth and go play in another sandbox" is arrogance, pure and
- >simple.
-
- Maybe about six months ago I would have welcomed such a post, but
- these days "OS/2 will run Windows apps" is pretty much common know-
- ledge. I was seriously going to try OS/2 a while back but have held
- off for several reasons, one of which is that good SVGA drivers
- aren't out there yet (except for the Trident 8900 cards, and we all
- know how much those suck) and the Novell requestor (essential to me)
- was "in the works".
-
- After observing a couple of others use OS/2 I'll just wait for NT.
- I've found since that OS/2's "seamless Windows" incurs a speed pe-
- nalty when compared to 3.1. To get a nice, non-crashing setup it
- requires that you go poking around the net for patches. The amount
- of patching one needs to do rivals Unix. On top of everything else
- the Novell requestor is pretty unstable and will cause the whole
- thing to crash pretty frequently.
-
- In other words, the reasons NOT to go OS/2 are support, support and
- support. Native OS/2 apps are few. Video drivers are few (you should
- see how much OS/2 users rail at ATI and Diamond et. al). Network sup-
- port is pretty awful. Other than that, if you want a nice, pre-emp-
- tive multitasking OS with lots of bells and whistles that can run Win-
- dows binaries, get OS/2.
-
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