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From: bnsokol@orchid.waterloo.edu (Brad Sokol)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: OS/2 Experiences
Keywords: OS/2
Message-ID: <12306@orchid.waterloo.edu>
Date: 16 Feb 88 18:21:57 GMT
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Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario
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Does any one on the net have any hands-on experience with the production
version of OS/2? I would be interested in hearing opinions and experiences
on using OS/2 as well as developing applications for it. Some issues of
interest are:

	-problems upgrading from DOS
	-OS/2 commands
	-DOS compatability box - what will run and what won't?
	-speed relative to DOS
	-multi-tasking - how effective is it?
	-application development tools - are all those wonderful DOS
	 compilers useless for OS/2?
	-operating system services - upwardly compatible from DOS INT 21H?
				   - what new functions have been added?

I realise that the usefullness of a 80286 based operating system is a
topic worthy of discussion, but I am interested in hearing exactly what
Microsoft and IBM have given us since it will likely be around in some form
for quite a while.

Thanks in advance
-- 
Brad Sokol, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada
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