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- From: bigfoot@pro-gallup.cts.com (Darren McDaniel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: OS2 - What is it ?
- Message-ID: <hq54711@pro-gallup.cts.com>
- Date: 26 Aug 92 21:11:07 GMT
- References: <10741445.8.714801424@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au>
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- In <10741445.8.714801424@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au>
- 10741445@eng2.eng.monash.edu.au (PAUL TZU WEN) writes:
-
- >I am in the dark with OS2 - so could someone please help me out ? Firstly,
- >what is OS2 ? As far as I know it is some sort of operating system where you
- >can do multitasking. Is that correct ? My questions are:
- >1) Is it any good ?
- >2) What do you need to run it ?
- >3) How do other programs/games work with it ?
- >Thanks in advance.
-
- answers....
-
- 1) Yes I find it VERY good.. and Fast
- 2) A 386/?? Any 386 or 486 will run the OS.. no 286's allowed for version
- 2.0
- 3) Just fine.. and sometimes faster than under dos.. it will run MSDOS/OS2
- and Windows programs at the same time.....
-
- DArren
-