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- From: mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu (Mike Levis)
- Subject: Re: Any Earthly Reason I SHould Use Os/2 NOW?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov8.231129.7352@ringer.cs.utsa.edu>
- Organization: University of Texas at San Antonio
- References: <721229605snx@sugs.tware.com>
- Date: Sun, 8 Nov 1992 23:11:29 GMT
- Lines: 58
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- In article <721229605snx@sugs.tware.com> landis@sugs.tware.com (Hale Landis) writes:
- >Gee, sorry to hear you are having so much trouble. In fairness,
- >here is a message from the other side of OS/2 life...
-
- [... great experience with OS/2! ...]
-
- >I know there are others out there with similar stories to tell --
- >I know some of them!
- >
- >Hale Landis Ph 408-423-4017
- >landis@sugs.tware.com -or- hale_landis@notes.seagate.com
-
- Hi Hale!
-
- I have a similar story to yours. I am very pleased with OS/2 2.0.x!
- Now let me share my story with interested readers (if any)...
-
- To all interested readers (if any):
-
- I installed GA on my system with absolutely no problems. Except for
- the lack of SVGA drivers for my WD90C31, I have had no problems running
- GA except when I got some trap when I changed some settings in my
- CONFIG.SYS to svga instead of vga. This happened because OS/2 (released
- in March) did not recognize Western Ditigal SVGA adapters with 1MB
- (released in the summer). All I needed was to ftp one replacement file
- from ftp-os2 and all was well (except for the lack of SVGA drivers).
- I had been running 99.4% pure GA until I got the SP.
-
- I did not have any problems installing the SP (except for the lack
- of SVGA drivers). I have had only three small "buglets" with the
- SP (REXX does not recognize some commands like SysCls, Alt-Home does
- not switch to Windowed DOS sometimes, and I had to reboot GA floppies
- to restore some EAs). Other than this (and the lack of SVGA drivers),
- I have found the SP to be excellent.
-
- Loading Win-OS/2 is *much* faster than before. The speed of scrolling
- in a Windowed session is faster than GA so now I don't use Full Screen
- Sessions too much anymore. I like the new Windowed VIO session fonts
- a lot. The SP is one fast mother forker...
-
- I've never had problems with black icons, bad diskettes, slow scrolling,
- mysterious crashes or whatever, with either GA or GA+SP. If you go to a
- hospital, you will only see sick people stay there. Healthy people don't
- need to stay at a hospital. It is incorrect to assume that all people
- are sick just because everyone staying at a hospital is sick. In the same
- way, it is incorrect to assume that all people are having problems with
- OS/2 just because you read about some OS/2 problems in an "OS/2 hospital".
- This newsgroup (comp.os.os2.misc) is an OS/2 hospital.
-
- =================
- Mike (OS/2) Levis
- mlevis@ringer.cs.utsa.edu
- mlevis@lonestar.utsa.edu
-
- disclaimer: "buglet" is an unregistered trademark of the Great TFS.
- disclaimer: "Great TFS" is an unregistered trademark of Timothy F. Sipples.
- disclaimer: I'm an unoffical spokesmodel for OS/2, Microsoft and IBM.
- disclaimer: This is a one-time .signature substituting for my real one.
-