Xref: utzoo comp.os.msdos.misc:2048 comp.windows.ms:12518 comp.os.os2.misc:1325 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.windows.ms,comp.os.os2.misc Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!news From: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen) Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 is here! (now error messages) Message-ID: <1991May10.114309.28926@watserv1.waterloo.edu> Sender: news@watserv1.waterloo.edu Organization: University of Waterloo, WATMIMS Research Group References: <1991May6.230021.24665@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> <1991May8.193731.15929@Informatik.TU-Muenchen.DE> Date: Fri, 10 May 1991 11:43:09 GMT Lines: 14 Crimson Avenger writes: > Agreed that Windows 3.0 has serious problems as a Operating System. However > Windows isn't really a OS, it's a application that is interfacing the OS > with other programs. I hate Windows crashes as much as you do, and the > Cryptic error messages, maybe in future releases they will fix that. Can anyone tell me whether OS/2 2.0 still has those horrible OS/360-style error messages in character mode? Do we have to wait for OS/2 NT to get non-obnoxious error messages? I guess a nice character-mode shell wasn't in IBM's plans, at least... :( [ \tom haapanen --- university of waterloo --- tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu ] [ "i don't even know what street canada is on" -- al capone ]