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	ants@rd.scitec.com.au (Anthony Sarkis) writes:

	I have a friend (a likely story) who has a 486SX-33 VLB machine with 20M of RAM
	and IDE and SCSI hard drives. He recently loaded OS/2 Warp on it and found 
	that in DOS full screen sessions that his DOS applications 
	appeared to run slowly, some don't even work! Actually everything apart from 
	OS/2 applications appeared to be sluggish. He tried playing around with the
	memory settings, with not much improvements.
	Now I have a similar machine and was considering buying OS/2 but am not real 
	sure now after what I've seen. 
	The OS/2 installed perfectly, runs well and doesn't lock up but it is just sluggish.
	Is this because of the machine speed or has he done something wrong ie. is this 
	what you would expect or is it something else.
	Any help would be appreciated.

You can run DOS programs under DOS and under OS/2 if you install the dual
boot facility.

   It is to be expected that not all DOS programs can run under OS/2 from the DOS
window or full-screen.  However, all DOS programs should still run under your own
DOS (e.g., when you dual boot from OS/2).

   That is why, if you want to continue running DOS programs, you need to have
the 2 operating systems installed.

   Running under your own DOS should not encounter any symptoms of sluggishness
for most programs.

   Bear in mind that under OS/2 in the DOS full-screen/window, you are
executing IBM's DOS.  It may behave/perform differently from your own DOS.