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From: wayne@csri.toronto.edu (Wayne Hayes)
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 is here!  READ THIS, you'll be impressed
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.001330.6254@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Organization: CSRI, University of Toronto
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Date: 29 Apr 91 04:13:30 GMT
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Regarding:

1) OS/2 2.0 will run independent DOS boxes with lots of free memory (lots ==
  usually more than 600K); it'll even run different *versions* of DOS
  concurrently.

2) OS/2 is very networkable.  You can "mount" remote disks and make them
   look local, just like NFS.  You can also write you're own device drivers.
   It would be relatively easy to write an NFS client for OS/2.

3) Of course since OS/2 2.0 is a real flat memory model OS, you won't have
  these memory problems.

4) HPFS gives far better performance than FAT, even FAT with disk caching.
  And you can print concurrently.  (I've never used anything earlier than
  OS/2 1.2, so I never even knew there was a version that didn't allow
  concurrent printing.)
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