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- From: hess@rzdspc14.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Hauke Hess)
- Subject: Re: <None>
- Message-ID: <hess.726395866@rzdspc14>
- Sender: news@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Mr. News)
- Organization: University of Hamburg, FRG
- References: <1993Jan6.035204.2337@ccsvax.sfasu.edu> <1993Jan6.183639.16735@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 08:37:46 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
-
- >It has also added a slew of printers (Citizen PN48, more Panasonics,
- >HP LaserJet 4, Compaq Pagemarq, IBM inkjets, QMS 1700, full line of HP
- >DeskJets). DPT SCSI support is now in the box. So is SoundBlaster
- >support for MMPM/2 (and MMPM/2 itself). There's a real manual in the
- >works (the beta CD-ROM comes with an online draft). There's a new
- >applet (FAX/PM, for one page incoming and outgoing faxes with DOS,
- >Windows, and OS/2 programs). The Win-OS/2 applets are all, by and
- >large, included. (The major exception is Windows Terminal; OS/2 comes
- >with PM Terminal.) If you have real Windows 3.1 on your hard disk
- >(say, if you're a software developer) there's a new setting which
- >keeps your Win-OS/2 and Windows Program Manager groups "in sync" --
- >any update in one is reflected in the other. Seamless drivers are
- >provided for a large selection of SuperVGA adapters, right in the box.
- >(The drivers support 640x480, 800x600, and 1024x768 in 256 colors.)
-
- I think what we get with OS/2 2.1 is the real GA. If MS would not have announced
- Windows NT and pushed it the way it did, public would never had seen OS/2 2.0
- End of March `92, but only OS/2 2.1 a bit earlier than we do now (think
- of all the time that would have been saved if noone at Boca had to work
- on a CSD, 2.0 GA bug fix sharing etc.).
-
- But now that 2.1 is coming, I hope it gets the audience it ought to: everybody
- with a 386 and at least 4MB.
-
- Hauke
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