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In article <C017Kp.A1w@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> mfprf@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu (Paul R. Falzer) writes:

>I am an MS-DOS/MS-WIN user.  I suppose that others of my ilk become incensed
>when they see or hear the mantra, "OS/2. . .OS/2."  I do not.  Rather, I'm
>interested in any information or expertise that might help me, or others
>like me, to solve a problem or to learn something new about the operation
>and configuration of Microsoft Windows, which runs under a variety of
>operating systems.  Any posting that even minimally meets this standard is
>just fine with me; but, slings and arrows, beer commercials, and testaments
>to the power of school spirit are not.  Any variation on a theme of "shut
>your ### mouth and go play in another sandbox" is arrogance, pure and
>simple.

Maybe about six months ago I would have welcomed such a post, but
these days "OS/2 will run Windows apps" is pretty much common know-
ledge. I was seriously going to try OS/2 a while back but have held 
off for several reasons, one of which is that good SVGA drivers 
aren't out there yet (except for the Trident 8900 cards, and we all 
know how much those suck) and the Novell requestor (essential to me)
was "in the works".

After observing a couple of others use OS/2 I'll just wait for NT.
I've found since that OS/2's "seamless Windows" incurs a speed pe-
nalty when compared to 3.1. To get a nice, non-crashing setup it 
requires that you go poking around the net for patches. The amount 
of patching one needs to do rivals Unix. On top of everything else
the Novell requestor is pretty unstable and will cause the whole 
thing to crash pretty frequently.

In other words, the reasons NOT to go OS/2 are support, support and 
support. Native OS/2 apps are few. Video drivers are few (you should
see how much OS/2 users rail at ATI and Diamond et. al). Network sup-
port is pretty awful. Other than that, if you want a nice, pre-emp-
tive multitasking OS with lots of bells and whistles that can run Win-
dows binaries, get OS/2.




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