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- From: gershon@husc11.harvard.edu (Ethan Gershon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: 4 meg OS/2 is great!
- Message-ID: <gershon.726903778@husc.harvard.edu>
- Date: 13 Jan 93 05:42:58 GMT
- Article-I.D.: husc.gershon.726903778
- References: <1993Jan12.025039.9579@actrix.gen.nz> <1993Jan12.042451.3844@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
-
- >In article <1993Jan12.025039.9579@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
- >>I have continued to play with OS/2 2.1 on 4 meg machine. I have it running
- >>like a rocket!
- >>Try this:
- >>Use FAT, not HPFS.
- >>Use the cmd.exe instead of running the WorkPlace Shell.
- >>You can still run all the PM, DOS and WinOS/2 apps. You alt+Esc between them.
-
- >>a nice - though sparse - PM menu that you can put your apps onto. It's a kind
- >>of low-rent Program Manager
-
- >While we're on the topic of alternative shells, you can also use
- >HyperAccess/5 or Enhanced Editor as a shell. (I leave it up to the
- >reader to implement that.)
-
- >Timothy F. Sipples | Read the OS/2 FAQ List 2.0i, available from
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- I'm sorry to ask a stupid question, but I've never quite understood this
- point: PM is the graphics manager (kind of like X-windows), WPS is a
- shell that uses PM and manages files and processes? Is this correct?
- If it is, what is the advantage of the WPS? How does running without
- the WPS affect other PM programs? etc.
-
- thanks.
- --Ethan Gershon
- gershon@husc.harvard.edu
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