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In article <yTrJoCAyb9dxEwiI@jimrim.demon.co.uk>
   Steve Rimmer <jim@jimrim.demon.co.uk> writes:
> At the moment I am using Win95 with Turnpike and MS Internet Explorer 2
> on a p100 machine with 32MB of RAM and a 28800bps modem.  But for 
> various reasons I am considering changing operating systems to os/2 warp
> (the blue spine version with internet software included).  Could anybody
> tell me if this os is compatable with demon and how easy is it to set
> up to send and receive mail and news, as win95 was quite complicated.  
> Secondly does anyone know whether this package contains an eqivilent to 
> turnpike and netscape, if not would os/2 run these win95 programs 
> without trouble?  Lastly would I need to get new drivers for my modem,
> printer, cd-rom etc or does os/2 warp cover these as well?
> If anyone could give me the answers to these questions I'd be grateful.

OS/2 will talk to Demon with no problems, either using existing KA9Q in 
a DOS box, using the native KA9Q/2 version or using the Internet Access 
Kit supplied. There is a port of SNews if you want to use a native 
offline reader, or most of the DOS ones will run happily.

Turnpike doesn't like the Winsock supplied with OS/2 and doesn't run, 
but Netscape will, although there is a native browser (Web Explorer) 
supplied. Note that you will need to go and ftp the latest version from 
an IBM site.

As regards drivers, unless you have wierd peripherals there should be 
drivers supplied. However, many of them may be out of date - I think I 
now use a newer CDROM driver, a newer printer driver and a newer display 
driver here, all acquired from various internet sites.

Anyway, followups to d.i.s.os2 to avoid boring the independants in 
d.i.s.

Dave
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dave@llondel.demon.co.uk
Any advice above is worth what I paid for it.