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From: rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 Ideas
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Date: 19 Oct 90 11:15:22 GMT
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There are a few things which I would like to see in OS/2:

- support for 720k (80 tracks, 9 sectors) 5.25" floppies in a 1.2M drive

- more support for tape streamers (especially for popular ones, I have a
  Colorado Jumbo) but that's better to be told to the manufacturers of
  those drives

- support for mouse in highres modes in the DOS box (800x600)
  and switching between that mode and protected mode display

- support for harddisks with more than 1024 cylinders (there are lots of
  drives with 1224 cylinders)

- free definable keyboard tables (as user-definable extensions to
  keyboard.dcp) 

- If one has two display adaptors, only the active one is updated. The
  inactive one is frozen even if there is a session running on that
  screen. It would be nice if that were updated too, because that would
  allow, for example, to let a compiler running on the second display
  while working on the primary one and view the progress of the compiler
  without switching to that session regularly.

- A desktop manager like the Windows one with all the groups in one main
  window instead of having them all separate.

Kai Uwe Rommel
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