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On Wed, 18 Mar 98 23:06:26, Alexander Wagner wrote: >On Wed, 18 Mar 1998 05:21:25 -0500 (EST), Stephen Amadei wrote: > >Hello! > >>Basically Warp hasn't changed radically since 2.1. Warp 3.0 was named >>2.3 internally, and Warp 4.0 is more like 2.4. > >Oh, that's only about compatibility. You know that OS/2 says it is >DOS 20.x? Thats the same with the 2.x ther're some apps which would >refuse running if OS-Ver is greater than 2 caus they thinkt that >couldn't be. So IBM decided to label OS/2 with Version 2.x, 3.x, 4.x, >5.x, 6.x but let it say internaly it is 2.0, 2.1, 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, >2.6... That has nothing to do with "no changes in kernel". The >Warp-Kernel especially is in some places rewritten AFAIK. It's no >2.x-Kernel fixed up. Also the Warp 4-Kernel. > >>Don't get me wrong, the >>add-ons since 2.1 are fantastic, but the core OS hasn't changed much... > >Wouldn't say it that way. I'd say: it is realy compatible to the old >software. > >>Most of the drivers I see are for Warp 3.0 and Warp 4.0... but then again, >>alot of the drivers I use are meant for 2.1, but run fine in 4.0. > >That is IBM: Protect your investment. Why should a driver written for >2.x not work with 4.x? What reason could I have to change the system >at it's basics... > > And I find this issue also relevant for older ThinkPads out of production, where newer drivers are hard to come by. At least you don't have the problem with a 2.x driver like Win95 has with a 3.1x driver. -- Paul Khoury <pkhoury@loop.com> http://pkhoury.dyn.ml.org (If you get an error, then the server is not online) Sent from my P75 Server The Operating System/2 Version is 4.00 Revision 9.030 There are 25 Processes with 86 Threads. This machine's uptime is 1d 0h 32m 54s 382ms.