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From: jack@cscdec.cs.com (Jack Hudler)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Query: Which would you recommend? Windows? or OS2 w/ PM?
Message-ID: <71@cscdec.cs.com>
Date: 30 Sep 90 00:38:50 GMT
References: <4227@rex.cs.tulane.edu> <1990Sep24.050147.11516@chinet.chi.il.us> <90270.162249TURGUT@TREARN.BITNET> <26395@cs.yale.edu>
Reply-To: jack@cscdec.cs.com (Jack Hudler)
Organization: Computer Support Corporation. Dallas,Texas
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In article <26395@cs.yale.edu> spolsky-joel@cs.yale.edu (Joel Spolsky) writes:
>That is why, in OS/2 (unlike Win 3 on a
>386), in a DOS box, you can't cut and paste, you can't multitask, you
>can't put the DOS box in a window, and you can't run more than one DOS
>box. Today, this is a good argument for Windows. If and when OS/2 2.0
>has multiple widowizable DOS boxes, then it will have caught up to
>Windows....

Personally, I have no need for the DOS box in OS/2 and don't even have
in enabled. I do all of my development,editing, and network administration
from and only OS/2.
DOS is dead.
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Jack           Computer Support Corporation             Dallas,Texas
Hudler         Internet: jack@cscdec.cs.com