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On Fri, 16 Dec 1994, Randal Whittle wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Dec 1994, STEVE GODFREY, (613) 788-4386 wrote: > > > I'm balking at changing over. 99.9% of my software usage is Microsoft > > Office, some windows fax software and windows comms. Oh did I forget > > DOOM? ;) How good is Warp at Windows applications if that's most of what > > I'm likely to use? > > I have not tried Warp, but I have tried and dumped every other > incarnation of OS/2 from 1.2 to 2.1. > > To me, it mostly boils down to this: If you have OS/2-based > software, its wonderful. If you have Windows-based software, then why > run OS/2? Just like those who had lots of DOS apps have been disappointed Mostly I'd agree with Randal (surprise!). If you're doing just fine with what you have, there's no reason to switch. On the other hand, if there's something in Warp that you definitely want, then it's worth looking into. >From a programmer's point of view, the separate memory spaces are invaluable - it is impossible for a program to crash another program or a system. Yes, impossible. As far as program A knows, it owns the entire machine - it can't see memory occupied by other programs. Unfortunately, device drivers and other low level software are exempt from this rule so you often get what looks like a program crashing the entire system. The flat memory addressing is nice too. I also find it really handy to be able to load 300k of device drivers (part of which is the Thinkpad Audio drivers :-) and still have 600k left for my DOS programs. If you really want to try out Warp, my suggestion would be to find someone who has Warp, or buy it with a money back guarantee (IBM Direct does this). Then you can try it out and see if it's to your liking. > In my experience, applications run best on the operating system (lets > not get too picky about Windows not really being an op. system--okay, > "operating environment") they were designed to run on. This means Windows > apps run best on Windows--not on a Mac "SoftWindows", not using WABI on some > flavor of Unix, and not on OS/2's Windows implimentation. I'd qualify that with "on the same hardware." There are Commodore 64 emulators that run circles around the real thing. WABI on a Cray would probably be similar. I royally screwed up my hard drive (reformatted and forgot to save a copy of the stuff I need to restore my backup) so I will not be posting much for a few days at least. Don't cheer too loudly. :-)