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- From: rda491s@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Agus Budy Wuysang)
- Subject: Re: Any Earthly Reason I SHould Use Os/2 NOW?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.015254.3848@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Organization: Monash University, Melb., Australia.
- References: <1992Nov7.200935.1@ducvax.auburn.edu> <1difdpINN9qj@uwm.edu> <1992Nov8.150405.19006@mlb.semi.harris.com>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 01:52:54 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov8.150405.19006@mlb.semi.harris.com> sonny@trantor.harris-atd.com (Bob Davis) writes:
- > I have EXCESSIVE hours already invested in trying to give OS/2
- >the benefit of the doubt (I have installed GA and SP from scratch AT LEAST
- >10 times -- do you know how long it takes to feed 18+ GA disks in PLUS
- >14+ SP or CSD disks in?????? -- and I AM TIRED!)
- >
- > I love the POTENTIAL of OS/2 but, realistically, one gives up
- >after Lucy pulls the football away EVERY time....
- >
- > With my 486SX 25 MHZ system, EGA monitor, 8 MEG SIMM system,
- >I cannot get WINOS2 to work at all after installation of the "CORRECTIVE"
- >SERVICE DISKS (even though it worked after the GA), I cannot EVER get DOS
- >from A: DIsk to work, and I cannot get the Notebooks to keep from clipping
- >the tops of many pages away.
-
- If you have EGA monitor, you should put "device=[drive][path]ega.sys"
- in order to use Windows 3.0 (or WinOS2).
-
- EGA.SYS comes with either Win 3.0 or DOS 5.0 I think, not sure about
- DOS 5, but certainly with Win 3.0.
- It should work with DOS 20.00 (OS/2 VDM) WinOS2 session.
-
- That's because EGA can't manipulate its register like VGA.
- But I strongly recommend to get a VGA monitor and adapter.
-
- >
- > And MY complaints are HARDLY the ONLY ones. This newsgroup is
- >replete with accounts of problems encountered by many people.
- >
- > One wonders, as a customer, after so many dissappointments, how
- >IBM could have loosed such a problem-plagued package as the CSD on its
- >users.
- >
- > I AM TIRED OF TRYING TO MAKE IT WORK!
- >
- > Thank you.
- No probs, just don't give it up too soon.
-
- >
- >
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