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feoh@Gnu.ai.mit.edu (Chris Patti) writes:

>hello, I'm buying a 486DX50 in 3 weeks, I'm currently trying to decide whether
>or not to go with MSDOS/Windows (I despise DOS, but want full compatibility
>with most windows apps) or OS/2 2.0 (a MUCH BETTER OS for *MY* needs, no flames
>:)..

>Could anyone who's having problems running sound/music apps under OS/2 let me 
>know/post it here? It'd be interesting to find out if IBM's claims are true :)

Well, I'm on a "lowly" 386/33 32k cache 8MB ISA 160 Meg 16ms ESDI drive
with a SBPro.  (Whew, what a mouthful)

The only problem I've had with games using the SB is the digitized stuff
on Falcon 3.0.  A couple other games (Wing Commander, Wolfenstein 3D)
using digitized stuff works OK.  I've had no problems with music other
than pauses or slowdowns during heavy disk activity.  Playing MODs with
WOWII under OS/2 gave some barely noticeable (but nonetheless irritating)
pauses between each portion of music sent through the buffer.  The MIDI
program and all the other neat stuff that comes with the SBPro works
just fine (except for the slowdown mentioned above).

I would say with a 486DX50, if you get at least 16 MB (to cut down on
swapping and disk activity) and possibly EISA and/or SCSI-2, you should
be safe 98% of the time.  You could use boot manager to boot a DOS partition
just in case you ever run into problems.
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