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In article <tadr.727938036@keiko> tadr@doe.carleton.ca (Tom A. D. Riley) writes:
>In <81615@hydra.gatech.EDU> np4@prism.gatech.EDU (Nick Pomponio) writes:
>
>>Has anyone tried to run the Windows version of Simulink under the OS/2 2.1
>>beta?  OS/2 2.1 supposedly runs enhanced-mode Windows applications (i.e.
>>Simulink).
>
>If I had it, simulink would be one of the first applications I would try.

I installed OS/2 2.1 last week.  I started up enhanced mode windows,
double-clicked on matlab-s.exe, and started to take 10000 svd's of
a 4x4 random matrix.  The little hourglass popped up like usual, so I
hit ALT-ESC and was back to the OS/2 desktop with matlab humming away
in the background!  Haven't used it much, so I don't know if there are
any bugs that might pop up, but it looks good so far.

I tried to tell Mathworks about how matlab/simulink would take control
of my machine for 45 minutes+ under windows, and they said that yes it
does hog the cpu and there was not planned a fix for it.  Neither were
they planning to test it under OS/2.  Well, at least OS/2 now has a way
around this feature.  Another thing I didn't like about matlab for
windows is that Ctrl-C doesn't always interrupt it.  I had to reboot my
machine several times when I was debugging an .m file.  Again, OS/2 to
the rescue.

Ken Neighbors
wkn@leland.stanford.edu

P.S.  I'm using an ATI Graphics Ultra with 8514/A drivers.  I've read
that windows may not run in the background with some graphics cards, so
this might not work all the time.

P.P.S  I've been wanting to try a 386 Matlab under OS/2, but I haven't
gotten hold of one yet.