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In <1994Apr21.034652.14101@oldcolo.com>, dave@oldcolo.com (Dave Hughes) writes:
>Jamie (jwilson1@scu.edu.au) wrote:
>: Has anyone else managed to get RA 2.01+ to run smoothly under OS/2? I know it
>: can be done but it just wont do it for me... This is annoying me incredibly,
>: and I am now looking for native OS/2 BBS software, and before anyone goes and
>: tells me how great it is to have native OS/2 apps, the reason I bought OS/2 is
>:
>
>Jamie - you can probably overcome those problems eventually, but our
>advice is to go with Lora BBS, which is (1) written for OS2 (2) has
>features that have moved beyond RA (3) is enough like RA you won't
>have much trouble mastering it (4) is still being developed with
>its author listening closely to us who are making it a very important
>componenet of a 'do it all in one box' telecom solution. 
>
>We know RA well, and one of us has installed more RAs than you can
>imagine, and in a DOS environment with Deskview, multi-user. It
>was fine, but we have gone beyond that kind of solution (windowed
>dos or os2) where only a BBS written for the multitasking OS
>makes sense. 
>
>Dave Hughes
>dave@oldcolo.com
>

        Dave is right, the max benefit of OS/2 is found only when the
application has been written for it. DOS/WINDOWS run on OS/2 but
that DOES NOT make the OS/2 aware. At best DOS based apps that
somehow give the illusion of multitasking are hatchet jobs at best.
In any instance they are not threaded which is what is unique to
OS/2 apps at this time. So if you are going to do it don't sit on the
fence, in for a penny in for a pound.

Mark