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With great reluctance I've have had to move from Warp Connect to windows. 
The story follows:

As a consultant I recommended Warp Connect as the operating system on a 
new 5 node LAN for a small company. The machines are 486 dx4-100 with 16mb
generic clones. The machine planned for the server has scsi HD's and all 
have generic ethernet network cards and MS compatible mice. Warp did not 
like the scsi adaptec compatible controller in that the FD ran about 10 
time slower than normal. It didn't like the network cords in that it could 
never find them and it didn't like the mice so that there was no install 
choice that would enable them to work without unpluging and plugging each 
in after warp had come up.

I spent days pouring through news groups and found many items that seems to
apply. Alas none worked. Finally I ran out of runway and had to change 
course to something that will run the win applications.

The moral here would seem to be that Warp Connect simply isn't ready for 
prime time. I know that some of you out there could have ultimately solved 
all of these problems.  I couldn't do so in the time available.  All of
these items do very well under Netware 4.1 (scsi drivers and network
cards).  And all do well with DOS/WIN with the NW client.  I was astonished
that so many thing would give warp Connect a problem.  I use and will
continue to use connect on my personal machine.  If win 95 avoids these 
kind of problems along with its easier interface os/2 will really be up 
against it.  I would like to find out what the solutions are for this set
of connect problems and I may over time.  My colleagues will be greatly
relieved in that they will no longer have to listen to me extol the virtues
of OS/2.

Until I can load warp and/or its successors without incident I cannot
recommend os/2 to any of my customers who might want to use generic network
cards, mice or scsi controllers.  The risk to me of being able to meet a
commited schedule is simply too high.

If there are any specific question, I'll try to respond.
regards
krl

Kermit R. Lund (KR)  Internet: krlund@garlic.com
11880 Columbet Ave., Gilroy, CA 95020 USA   Phone: 408-683-2111
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