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From: ulnie@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de (Ulf Niesar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 Ideas
Message-ID: <1990Oct21.183339.13955@sun1.ruf.uni-freiburg.de>
Date: 21 Oct 90 18:33:39 GMT
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jfarley@hpspcoi.HP.COM (Jens Farley) writes:

>Hello OS/2 users (and abusers, I'm sure):

>I am interested in hearing what real OS/2 users would like to see,
>but haven't, in OS/2.  I'm talking about base functionality that
>can be changed or added by an OEM to the base OS/2, like base
>device drivers and utilities -- but keeping it non-vendor-specific. 

Jens, if you are looking for an idea of a new product you may wish to 
look at an discussion on this newgroup a few weeks ago named "HPFS and 
cache controllers" or similar.

Close to the end of this discussion I came up with the idea of adding
support for an UPS. I think it wouldn't cost so much if the standard power
supply would be replaced by a battery buffered power supply (capacity just
for a few minutes). It would be great if a"watchdog device driver" or
something similar could give an alarm or terminate message to the active 
applications before the machine goes down. The capacity for UPS should be
sufficient to make a smooth shutdown possible. There would be no need to 
supply power for the display. Of course, this would only be a little bit of
extra security but that may be of great value. Just in *the* special case...

What about New Wave for OS/2 ? That looks to me quite nice, too.

Ulf Niesar              bitnet: ulnie@dfrruf1.bitnet
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