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- From: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au (Tom J Parry)
- Subject: Re: Why I love OS/2. (Kids, try this at home!)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep16.025718.22389@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Originator: parry@yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au
- Sender: news@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Usenet system)
- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
- References: <1992Sep14.142327.7231@nmt.edu>
- Date: Wed, 16 Sep 1992 02:57:18 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- John Reynolds (jreynold@nmt.edu) wrote:
- >
- > Ok. Now that I know how/why the WPS restarts itself, someone tell me what
- > *this* crash is, because it doesn't sound like the WPS crashing. Several
- > times, I have been working with OS/2 (typical programs running are, a windoze
- > app or two, a couple of 4os2, or 4dos windows, and maybe asteroids :-), when
- > I come out of the win-os2 session I can see (just for a split second) that
- > the DOS colors are fubar on the screen (I have my global dos-autoexec.bat
- > type an ANSI file on dos-box start ups). When I see that that happens, if
- > I try and start _any_ app that relies on starting another dos session, OS/2
- > will hang. Although, pulse, pmclock, and pmeyes still seem to be doing
- > what they're supposed to. And when I do c+a+del, I hear the file system
- > being sync'ed. What is this bizarre lockup? I've got 16Mb of ram in my
- > machine, and not many apps going on at once.....
- >
- > Rest of setup: Gateway 486/33T, ATI Ultra, Meg 15" mon., 200Mb ide drive.
-
-
- I am using the new BETA ET4000 drivers in 800x600x256 mode and find that
- sometimes (more often its when switching from full screen) if there is a
- lot to be redrawn, then everything locks up. But it's only the WPS it seems
- because things continue to run even though the WPS has stopped dead in the
- middle of a redraw. Disk access may continue in the back on a process not
- producing output and Ctrl-Alt-Del sync's the drive.
-
- It never happened before I used these drivers.
-
- Hardware: 486/33, Tseng ET4000, 200MB HPFS, 120MB FAT
-
- --
- Tom J Parry.
- Your reality is a figment of my imagination.
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