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- From: George_Lin@mindlink.bc.ca (George Lin)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: OS/2 questions from Amiga user
- Message-ID: <14455@mindlink.bc.ca>
- Date: 21 Aug 92 01:26:00 GMT
- Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
- Distribution: world
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- > Thomas Farmer writes:
- >
- > 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?
-
- There is a shareware utility to do this.
-
- > 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.
-
- As far as I know, you must reboot the machine. But then again, once the
- config.sys is set up properly, there shouldn't be a need to change it often.
- IBM compatible hardware comes in many varieties. Different drivers for
- different devices.
-
- On the Amiga, you have to MOUNT devices that don't auto-config. Similarly,
- once these drivers are loaded, a reboot is required to kill the old.
-
- > Third question : Can I turn off mouse acceleration? I like highly
- > geared, but linear, mouse movement.
-
- Not that I know of. Other than playing with the setting Setup mouse settings,
- there are no other adjustments.
-
- > 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.
-
- I haven't seen any. The font size can be changed, but I know this is not what
- you are looking for.
-
- > Last question : Can I play Pinball Dreams under OS/2? :-)
- > I'm looking forward to the next release.
-
-
- No, but you can play WOLFENSTEIN-3D and FALCON3.
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