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To: tp750
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> Unless you have a compelling need to have pre-emptive
> multitasking, OS/2 really doesn't offer any advantage at all (if you are
> running Win apps).
>
I think this can be answered with one statement. You can print and use the
machine for something else at the same time.
> You can hardly get a 24-bit color (accelerated) video driver, it
> didn't know what to do with my SyQuest removable drive, I couldn't get a
> driver for my HP ScanJet IIc...and it ran my Windows apps still slower
> than they ran under plain-wrap Windows (OS/2 1.3, 2.0, 2.1) (doubly-so
> without the accelerated video).
>
It's the drivers stupid. I agree with what you said about the drivers, but
I don't agree with the speed of Windows apps. They are as fast as 3.11
under WARP.
> Perhaps Warp/3.0 has rectified some of these problems--but who
> cares?
I keep asking myself WHY bother.
> It still does little or nothing more for me than Windows ever did, and
for
> a lot more headaches to go through it all over again.
I would like to say that it would crash less than Windows, but I don't have
many problem with my 750C's current configuration for DOS/Windows.
In fact WARP has crashed and wiped out the disk more than once....
> I don't intend to sound nasty, but is OS/2 going to spend the
> rest of its existence running apps intended for other people's operating
> systems?
Or is it.... It's the applications stupid? In the end the lack of native
applications will kill OS/2. It doesn't matter what the overall quality of
the product is (or the technology). This sounds like Beta vs VHS all over
again.
As you can see, I have mixed feelings about OS/2...
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Scott Stratmoen | strat@dsd.northrop.com
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Scott Stratmoen | strat@dsd.northrop.com
| (708) 259-9600 ex 4762