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In article <1993Jan24.123309.11315@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:

>In article <1jnbd9INN9ti@controversy.math.lsa.umich.edu>
>spexet@math.lsa.umich.edu (D. Robert Spexet II) writes:
>> 
>> Now, this may really sound like a dumb question, but why would anyone want
>> to buy version 5.2 of WordPerfect, when they can just buy the latest Windows
>> version and run that instead?

>Because the Windows version still has to run on top of a virtual DOS...and the
>virtual DOS is the thing that pushes your PULSE graph to the top of the scale.

*Ahem* ... there must be more to it than this, I have a couple of DOS apps 
which don't peak Pulse. I'd understood this behaviour was due to the DOS 
apps being programmed with keyboard polls, quite common and acceptable in 
DOS but causing confusion at least in OS/2.

Followups to - err, c.o.o.p?

>System resources are used much more efficiently by OS/2 apps. Performance
>would be an issue in making the decission to buy WP5.2 for OS/2. 

No argument there...
 
>Plus....if no one buys it.....they won't write any more software for OS/2.

:-(

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Gary.Woodman@anu.edu.au         This post made from 100% recycled electrons.