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From: barry@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Barry Lay)
Date: Tue, 24-Oct-89 15:46:28 EDT
Message-ID: <1989Oct24.154628.16667@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2
Subject: Re: what are you doing with OS/2???
Summary: Not much ...
References: <5154@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu>
Reply-To: barry@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Barry Lay)

We are part of a cooperative program with IBM, so we use OS/2 whether we like
it or not.  I am hooked up to the mainframe via a token ring, so I use the
Communications Manager to do 3270 emulation.  It is better than the old 
workstation program on the 3270 PC.  The thing that I like about OS/2 is that
you can fire up multiple OS/2 windows to do things like format disks, figure
things out, and the like, without giving up the terminal session.  This makes
the PS/2 much more useful in an office environment where everyone doesn't have
one.

I tried to use the Database Manager as well, as we run DB2 on the mainframe,
and I wanted to look at the distributed database idea to help with performance.
I found that 60Mb is not enough for serious OS/2 use.  With SAS and Lotus on
there as well, there just isn't a way.

I saw some EE 1.2 stuff at a recent Guide, and it looks like they have fixed
a lot of the non-PM stuff.  Unfortunately, it won't even boot with less than
3.5M of RAM, and won't run very well in less than about 6M.  The mouse 
tracking is still awful.  When SAS 6.06 comes out, I think that we will start
to see some of the advantages.

Barry