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From: cfreas@eeserv1.ic.sunysb.edu (Terry Freas)
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Subject: Re: OS/2 Ideas
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Date: 21 Oct 90 03:05:54 GMT
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In article <4979@tuminfo1.lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de> rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Kai-Uwe Rommel) writes:
>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

Good idea.  I have a program called FormatMaster that can create 800K
diskettes from 360K diskettes in a 1.2M drive for MS-DOS.  I'm not sure
the same thing couldn't be provided the same way under OS/2.

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

If that kind of support is included, with no way for dynamic application
self-redraw in the Dos-box, the memory usage is just to much for task
switching.

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

Actually, I think v1.3 will provide this feature along with other interface
portions of Windows OS/2 doesn't yet have.  In addition, it will include
other features *not* included in Windows.  Microsoft seems to be having the
two programs (Windows & OS/2's PM) leap-frog each other at every release.

>Kai Uwe Rommel
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