🚀 go-pugleaf

Having used a copy of OS/2 2.0 (the final release) on a friend's 386DX-25, I
must say that IBM has come a long way, but have some stuff to work out.  Even
tho the machine had 8MB, it was almost constantly swapping stuff to disk when
asked to do more than about 4 tasks at once.  (At least it has multi-tasking.)
The biggest problem I have with this, aside from wear and tear, is the swap
file created grows as applications are started, but won't shrink after closing
them; rather only after shutdown.  Another small problem I noticed, that IBM
should be correcting already from what I understand, is the incompatability withthe new Windows 3.1.  Some newer programs had real problems running in a
OS/2 WIN window.  Plus, OS/2 being a 'protected' system (so one crash doesn't
crash all the progs), you run into problems with programs that want to manage
memory (like Windows in Extended mode).  The BOOT manager is nice, but does
it really have to take up a whole 1MB of space?
And the video drivers (only available at the time was 600x320) suck.  Get some
people to get some decent drivers for the popular graphics cards like the
Diamond Stealth and Tseng ET4K.

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Boltz
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