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- From: jim@tct.com (Jim Kunzman)
- Subject: OS/2 2.1 Beta bug
- Message-ID: <2B4A083D.85F2@tct.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 22:14:21 GMT
- Organization: TC Telemanagement, Clearwater, FL
- Lines: 44
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- I believe I have discovered a fairly serious bug in OS/2 2.1 beta.
- The problem occurred while trying to run a seamless Windows application
- on a system with the Novell Netware Requester installed.
-
- When I tried to run the Windows application I got the following
- message in a window:
-
- The NewWare Shell has not been loaded.
-
- All network functions will be disabled.
-
- To use NetWare, load the NetWare Shell and restart Windows.
-
- After clicking OK to continue, there were a few more disk accesses
- and then the machine hung. Although the mouse was still active, I
- could not activate any other windows, nor could I Alt-Esc or Ctrl-Esc.
- The only alternative was the three finger salute.
-
- Note: The problem occurs regardless of whether I am logged into the
- netware drive. I will be reporting this bug to IBM on CompuServe,
- but I'm wondering if anyone else has seen the problem...
-
- Other observations:
-
- I installed 800x600x256 and was not overly impressed by the scrolling
- speed. It's almost enough to make me return to 640x480x256.
-
- I noticed that WinOS2 3.1 window creations seem faster than OS/2 window
- creation. This should be fixed or Microsoft will ...
-
- There is still no HPFS support for large removable drives. Just getting
- a DIRectory listing of a 128MByte FAT drive is still very slow. MY DOS
- drivers for this drive are much faster. HPFS should be extended to large
- removable drives.
-
- Apparently, there is still only one PM message queue! This is a glaring
- deficiency in an otherwise extremely well designed product.
-
- Overall, I like the new OS/2. Things do seem faster and the
- installation from CD-ROM was a breeze.
- --
- Jim Kunzman at Teltronics/TCT <jim@tct.uucp>, <uunet!pdn!tct!jim>
- -----
- OS/2 2.0 - 1,600,000+ copies sold. Sweet dreams Mr. Ballmy.
-