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From: luis@grinch.UUCP (luis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MS-DOS 5.0 and PC/OS2
Message-ID: <245@grinch.grinch.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 16-Jun-87 05:24:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: grinch.245
Posted: Tue Jun 16 05:24:10 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 21-Jun-87 07:19:04 EDT
References: <1534@megatest.UUCP> <813@sfmin.UUCP>
Reply-To: luis@grinch.UUCP (Luis Chanu)
Organization: Textural Software, San Jose, CA.
Lines: 32

In article <813@sfmin.UUCP> lmg@sfmin.UUCP writes:
>> 
>> I trying to sort out the rumors pertaining to the capabilities of the
>> next release of MS-DOS, and the first release of PC/OS2.
>> 
>> Could anyone please comment/confirm/deny the following:
>> 
>> 	1) PC/OS2 will not be compatible with the current applications
>> 	   written for MS-DOS. I.e., if you have a copy of Lotus 123 and
>> 	   wish to use the multitasking/enhanced memory capabilities of
>> 	   PC/OS2, you will need a new copy.
>
>You will be able to run one (1) current MS-DOS application under OS/2.
>I believe it gets suspended if you put it in the background to run an
>OS/2 application. Only OS/2 applications - none of which exist right now -
>can be multitasked. TSR programs such as Sidekick may not work at all.
>
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You say that TSR programs will NOT run at all under OS/2.  Sorry, but they
WILL!  The only thing, is that they will only be able to be called from
the environment which they were called.  (i.e. If run under PC-Dos
Compatible mode, it will only work and bee seen there.)  At the class I
went to with IBM, they had SideKick up and running just fine...  So, to
clear things up, they WILL run...  just thought I would point that out...

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