🚀 go-pugleaf

Tim Timmins wrote:

> Tony Weddle wrote:
> >
> > I finally got the Tashika modem working with OS/2.  I can only use SLIP and
> have
> > to turn off VJ Compression but after that it seems to work fine.
> >
> I doubt that this is to do with OS2. More likely to do with the new
> modems that Demon are using and/or an IRQ conflict or similar at your
> end.

As I'd posted a few weeks ago, the modem works fine in Windows '95 and I'm using
exactly the same IRQ and com port that I did with my previous modem under OS/2.
I'm mystified but at least it now seems to work.

>
>
> > Now, having managed it, I find that IBM are ceasing further development on
> OS/2
> > as a stand-alone system.  OS/2's only future seems to be in thin clients.
> Some
> > future.
> >
> > Tony Weddle
>
> This is FUD and has no basis in fact.
>

I would love it if you were right.  I was basing my comment on the front page
story of last week's Computing where Nick Davis, the UK OS/2 product manager,
was quoted as saying, "It is no longer being developed as a standalone ...
product.  We are taking it down the road of network computing.  We see OS/2
supporting ebusiness from now on."  The back page of this week's PC Week
(admitedly not purely a news page) also implied that OS/2 was dead ("long live
Linux").  I think this is a disastrous piece of news but not wholly
unpredictable.

Tony Weddle