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From: lowey@herald.usask.ca (Kevin Lowey)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.windows.ms,comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 is here! vs Windows 3.0 vs NeXT/MACH
Message-ID: <1991May10.204939.17701@herald.usask.ca>
Date: 10 May 91 20:49:39 GMT
References: <1991May9.182102.29631@netcom.COM>
Organization: University of Saskatchewan
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From article <1991May9.182102.29631@netcom.COM>, by resnicks@netcom.COM (Steve Resnick):

> The DOS box runs in real mode which means there is not protection. If you
> crash the DOS box, it could very likely kill the rest of the machine. 
> OS/2 2.0 shouldn't have this problem.

I've been running OS/2 from 1.0.  I've crashed the DOS box many times.  
Most of those times, all I have to do is press <ATL>-<ESC> and I am back in my
OS/2 sessions.  They still operated fine.

The only exception to this is if the DOS program screws up the keyboard 
interrupt so that the <ALT>-<ESC> doesn't get passed through to OS/2.

- Kevin Lowey (LOWEY@SASK.USASK.CA)