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From: todd@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Todd Ogasawara)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: what are you doing with OS/2???
Message-ID: <5154@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Date: 18 Oct 89 06:11:49 GMT
Organization: University of Hawaii
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I installed IBM OS/2 1.1 Extended Edition on my PS/2 55SX a few weeks
ago.  I haven't done much with it myself and got to wondering what
others are doing with OS/2.   At the moment my copy is simply taking up
much of my 60M hard disk.

From what I've seen of OS/2 1.1 EE, I'm quite disappointed... The various
applications that IBM supplies with EE (SQL, Editor, etc.) all seem to only
run in full screen (non-presentation manager) mode.  The only thing that
seems to run in PM mode is SideKick for PM which was bundled with OS/2.

The DOS emulation Window is poorly implemented and not very useful.

Given all the shortcomings of this version of OS/2, I'm about ready to dump
it off of my hard disk and go back to DOS 4.01 and Windows/386.

Anyone out there actually doing productive things with OS/2?  If so, I'd
like to hear what you are doing.  I'm ready to give OS/2 a chance, but
personally, I'd prefer a UNIX system of any flavor over OS/2...todd

-- 
Todd Ogasawara, U. of Hawaii
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