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From: farren@hoptoad.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS 5.0 and PC/OS2
Message-ID: <2296@hoptoad.uucp>
Date: Mon, 15-Jun-87 06:03:41 EDT
Article-I.D.: hoptoad.2296
Posted: Mon Jun 15 06:03:41 1987
Date-Received: Tue, 16-Jun-87 01:44:14 EDT
References: <1534@megatest.UUCP> <243@grinch.grinch.UUCP>
Reply-To: farren@hoptoad.UUCP (Mike Farren)
Organization: Nebula Consultants in San Francisco
Lines: 43
Keywords: OS/2

In article <243@grinch.grinch.UUCP> luis@grinch.UUCP (Luis Chanu) writes:
>       - EGA will NOT be supported AT ALL!  If you have an EGA board, it
>         becomes a CGA board.  And, in version 1.1, monochrome will NOT
>         be supported because they are going to go to a window environment.

Somewhat of a loss, but then, by the time OS/2 shows up, VGA will probably be
the "standard".

>       - Currently, you can NOT kill a process.  When asked how the computer
>         will know to kill an infinite loop, they replied, "The computer
>         will sence it, and auto-maticaly kill it."  (sure it will...)

BIG stupidity.  I'm not concerned about infinite loops, but AM concerned about
runaway processes - either they're gonna kill me during a long compute, or
they won't when I'm unnecessarily tied up.

>       - Communications PROBABLY will not work due to time slices.

If true, another BIG stupidity.

>       - OS/2 is compatible with PC-DOS file structure, so it can read/write
>         to PC-DOS.
>       - The 32 Megabyte hard disk limit is still in effect.  They (IBM) said
>         though that in version 1.1 (late 88), they would have a partitioning
>         program to allow larger hard disks (i.e. 400+megabytes).

Probably inevitable, but still, too bad.  The 32 Meg limit is, and always
has been, idiotic.

>       - LAN's are _NOT_ supported by OS/2.  (You heard it right....)
>       - Communications will NOT be supported in compatibility mode.

More stupidity.  Well, after having fairly high hopes for OS/2 in the 
beginning, I'm rapidly coming to the conclusion that a good '386 UNIX with
MS-DOS partitioning using the virtual 8086 capablitiy of the 386 is gonna
be the best bet.  Don't know why I had my hopes up - this is, after all,
a Microsoft product...

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                 "... if the church put in half the time on covetousness
Mike Farren      that it does on lust, this would be a better world ..."
hoptoad!farren       Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegon Days"