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- From: sci240s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Wey Jing HO)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 a better DOS than DOS!!!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep15.055123.13450@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
- References: <BuKwEF.MEE@nntp-sc.Intel.COM>
- Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 05:51:23 GMT
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- In <BuKwEF.MEE@nntp-sc.Intel.COM> crichmon@sedona.intel.com (Chris Richmond) writes:
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- >I guess that OS/2 really is a better DOS than DOS.
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- >I bought a new 486-33 a while ago and over the weekend, I was
- >trying out all my old DOS software to make sure it still worked
- >(under DOS 5.0). Well, everything was OK until I tried to
- >run Sprint (Borlands old word processor). It started loading,
- >spit out the one line title, and failed with a Divide overflow
- >error and stuck me back at the DOS prompt.
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- >Well have no fear, OS/2 is here! I opened a full screen DOS session,
- >loaded Sprint, and it worked flawlessly!
-
- My friend just came here and said that his "old" DOS chess program call
- CYRUS will not work on any machines he tried (probably mostly MS-DOS 4 to
- MS-DOS 5.0). This CYRUS program is probably 4 years old. I tried on my PC
- with MS-DOS 5.0, sure enough it doesn't work properly. Starting under
- full screen DOS session work without any problem! So, I am convinced that
- OS/2 is a better DOS than MS-DOS!!! Now what about Windows 3.1 .......
- .... I am still waiting.
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- >Wey Jing Ho Tel: 61-3-573-2567 E-mail : sci240s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au<
- >Physics Dept., Monash University ( Caulfield Campus ), Melbourne, AUSTRALIA<
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