Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!nmouawad From: nmouawad@watmath.waterloo.edu (Naji Mouawad) Subject: (Did you say Os/2 ?) (was Re: DV386 HOROR STORIES?) Message-ID: <1991Jun21.163305.7512@watmath.waterloo.edu> Organization: University of Waterloo Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1991 16:33:05 GMT Lines: 52 Ahem ... I will feel very sorry if this posting degenerates into flaming. So, please, relax, and read what follows with an inquisitive mind... I saw a presentation of Os/2 here at Waterloo. Now, I am not particularly fond of the beast, but the following caught my attention: -Runs any dos program in true protected mode. Meaning that no application can freeze the system if it hangs. The reason being that the OS is protected from all applications. -You could specify the Dos. version if need be, up to version 5.0 If you have an application which requieres Dos 2.1, you tell Os/2 and it'll give this application that version of Dos. -Os/2 will give Dos-apps the files in the 8.3 format only. So, if you do a dir in a dos shell you'll see only the files that are fat-compatible, even though Os/2 is using the HDLL (?). -A dos session has 633k of free memory. -Mouse is sharable and so is the network. -Runs Windows 2 and 3 apps unchanged. -requieres 10 mgs of Disk space :*( and at least 6 mgs to run confortably. -It might not be that slower than Dv because it takes advantage of the 32-bit nature of the 386. -nice new shell, kind'a mac-looking. So what you might say ? This is a Dv group ! I know, but I would like to know how many of you would give Os/2 a look or a shot, or if some of you did hear infos conserning Os/2 which are not as rosy as the one I am presenting. __Naji. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------- | Naji Mouawad | nmouawad@watmath.waterloo.edu | | University |---------------------------------------------------| | Of Waterloo | "The Stranger in us is our most familiar Self" |