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- From: rjones@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Ronald Jones)
- Subject: Re: *** Many important (to me) questions about OS/2 ***
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- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 1992 00:28:51 GMT
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- In article <BsxwvA.Eyr@undergrad.math.waterloo.edu> bcrwhims@cayley.uwaterloo.ca (Carsten) writes:
- >Hi all,
- >
- >I have been using OS/2 on a 386sx16 w/ 6M for a while, and I have a couple
- >of observations, and some questions:
- >
- >- I was able to borrow 2M from a friend to see if the speed improved. It was
- > a noticeable, but small improvement, but nothing that I thought was worth
- > it.
- >
- >- I have heard recently that a fast hard-drive makes a difference. Is this
- > true? In that case, I would love to replace my ridiculous 40M 27ms drive
- > with a 200M, 12-15ms IDE drive. Any comments? Will this enable me to make
- > better use of the extra 2M, if I upgrade to 8M?
- >
- >- I have a Plus hardcard w/ 100M and a cached 9ms access-time. Can I boot
- > and run OS/2 off this drive (d:)?
- >
- >- I have been using PmComm for a bit, toying with the idea of registering
- > it, but it doesn't do scripts in the pre-registered version, and I don't
- > want to have to pay 89.95 to find out that their implementation stinks.
- > Has anyone registered it, and how is it? Is there another shareware comm
- > program out there that is a little cheaper, and as functional, and nice?
- >
- >- I use PmComm, and DOS ProComm before it, to log in to the computer at
- > school to get mail and news, but recently I have been losing the
- > connection, and had to reboot my computer, since although I could hang
- > up by disconnecting the line from the computer, I couldn't get the modem to
- > hang up. I am using a Zoom Sendfax 2400 modem. Does anyone have any idea
- > why this is happening?
- >
- I've been using the registered version of PMcomm for several months now. I
- highly recommend it. DOn't use a DOS program for communications under OS/2
- if you can avoid it! THe scripting with PMcomm is good. You can use the
- internal commands, which are simple and generated with auto-record (like
- procomm) or you can use the very powerful Rexx commands. It also has a
- good zmodem. I found the demo version of PMcomm somewhat buggy!
-
-
- >- Also recently (coincidence ?), I have had to double-click _TWICE_ on some
- > of the program folders on my desktop, since the first double-click only
- > moves them into memory (shaded background, ie minimized). Why? Very annoying!
- > Carsten Whimster Absurdity is the result of people demanding
- > bcrwhims@cayley.waterloo.edu meaning from a world which has none. Camus.
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