Re: OS/2 2.0 is here! (now error messages)

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From: Tom Haapanen
Date: Fri, 10 May 1991 11:43

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Crimson Avenger <yee@aix01.aix.rpi.edu> writes:
> Agreed that Windows 3.0 has serious problems as a Operating System.  However
> Windows isn't really a OS, it's a application that is interfacing the OS 
> with other programs.  I hate Windows crashes as much as you do, and the
> Cryptic error messages, maybe in future releases they will fix that.

Can anyone tell me whether OS/2 2.0 still has those horrible OS/360-style
error messages in character mode?  Do we have to wait for OS/2 NT to get
non-obnoxious error messages?

I guess a nice character-mode shell wasn't in IBM's plans, at least...  :(

[ \tom haapanen --- university of waterloo --- tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu ]
[ "i don't even know what street canada is on"               -- al capone ]

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From: tom@mims-iris.waterloo.edu (Tom Haapanen)
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 is here! (now error messages)
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