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lowey@jester.usask.ca (CrazyMan) writes:
]3) OS/2 programs run safer.

...
]In OS/2 however, an application may put a clock on the screen because
]it may not want you to change a document while it is being printed for
]example. The difference is you can still move the window around, click on
]other applications, and run them normally.  The one program doesn't take
]over the entire machine.

Well, in theory, but because of the single input cue, in practice it's
not quite so good- eg, if I open a floppy drive, it takes over the whole
shell for up to a minute, the terminal emmulator Hogs the input cue
badly at times (eg, on disconnect it will hog it until the modem has
hung up, no matter what) etc, but they can rarely grab it permanently.
So, better, but not yet perfect.