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- From: djn@ukc.ac.uk (D.J.Neades)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Wish List
- Message-ID: <5305@gos.ukc.ac.uk>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 03:33:55 GMT
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- Organization: Computing Lab, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
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- On my OS/2 2.1 wish list:
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- The option of using small system fonts in 1024x768 mode. The reason I use
- a high resolution mode is so that I can get more information on the screen.
- The enormous system fonts in the SP and beta SVGA drivers don't let me do
- this. Reading online help is particularly difficult, since little
- information can fit on the screen at a given time. Since I'm
- forever looking at the online API references, this is a pain.
-
- Better still, let the user choose which font to use instead of the
- 'system proportional' font. That way, I could view help and online
- information in 8pt Helv.
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- Also add me to the list of people who want jump scrolling. This is
- *important* to me.
-
-
- Comments on the OS/2 2.1 beta:
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- Overall, pretty good. However, I got a trap on average every 15 minutes
- at first. It took me a whole night to install successfully. The problem
- was the IBM1S506.ADD driver. 'No problem' you say, use the latest one
- on watson. That wasn't any better either.
-
- I'm using the one from GA now, and only trap (usually 0d and 0e)
- or freeze about every 4 hours! Interestingly, the GA IBM1S506.ADD
- seems to be more stable on my system than the SP version.
-
- I have a 486DX-25 AMI BIOS, 16Mb RAM, Tseng SVGA and a Seagate ST3144A
- (IDE) 245MB, 12ms hard drive.
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- Daniel J Neades 3rd year computer science undergraduate
- University of Kent at Canterbury, England
-