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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: dosv under os2
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.202059.15397@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 20:20:59 GMT
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- In article <17t6p8INN5od@agate.berkeley.edu> ucbked@athena (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes:
- >the faq for os2 claims you can run multiple dos sessions under
- >os2 and they need not be the same version. is this for real? is
- >it robust?
-
- Yes to both questions -- it works extremely well.
-
- >i want to run dosv, the version of dos marketed by ibm for at and
- >ps2 bus machines that does on screen display of japanese kanji.
- >this version of dos does nothing more exotic than trap bios
- >calls, check if the two byte codes are kanji, and display
- >accordingly. it runs fine on generic us and european market
- >machines. nevertheless, i do not want to shell out for os2 and
- >learn its quirks if os2 will not runs dosv.
- >(the v is dosv is not, by the way roman numeral 5, it stands for
- >vga.)
-
- There is no reason in principle why this would not work. However,
- don't worry about wasting your money -- buy OS/2 2.0 from IBM by
- calling 800-3-IBM-OS2 (in the U.S.) IBM is offering a 30 day no
- questions asked money back guarantee. If you don't like it, return it
- for a refund. Sound fair?
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