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- Subject: OS/2 questions from Amiga user
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.024946.26954@datamark.co.nz>
- From: tfarmer@datamark.co.nz (Thomas Farmer)
- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 02:49:46 GMT
- Organization: Datamark International Ltd.
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- Hi there guys and guyettes.
-
- I've been using OS/2 2.0 for a while now, but I have a few questions
- that I hope you can answer. My main experience with multi-tasking
- OSes has been using my Amiga (I won't count Windows for now :-) but it
- seems there are some differences in philosophy...
-
- For example, on my Amiga I can give task priorities to different
- tasks. For example, I normally run comms packages with a task priority
- of about 3, most other things with a priority of 0, and stuff like
- screen-savers and ray-tracers with a priority of -1 or lower.
-
- What is the equivalent with OS/2? Does it use task priorities in the
- same way? Can you change them?
-
- Another question : why is it necessary for OS/2 to load the various
- comms drivers and other such stuff from the config.sys? This means
- that whenever you want to change something, you have to reboot the
- machine. If you happen to be running TCP/IP, this takes a fair while.
-
- Note, I'm not flaming - I assume there is some sort of reason.
- (Although I have the horrible feeling that it could be hysterical
- accident. :-(
-
- Third question : Can I turn off mouse acceleration? I like highly
- geared, but linear, mouse movement.
-
- Question : Are there any command shells which aren't just text windows
- in a box? I'm looking for something that is scalable and doesn't just
- use scrollbars to access the pre-defined area.
-
- Last question : Can I play Pinball Dreams under OS/2? :-)
-
- I'm looking forward to the next release.
-
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