From: rcook@happy.helios.nd.edu (robert cook)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: YADQ (yet another dumb question)
Date: 15 Apr 92 19:46:49 GMT
Article-I.D.: news.1992Apr15.194649.7206
Reply-To: Cook.14@nd.edu (R. Kelley Cook)
Organization: Univ. of Notre Dame

In article <1992Apr15.152846.16283@atl.scscom.com>, chris@atl.scscom.com (Chris Boaro) writes:
|> burton@asdsun.larc.nasa.gov (John Burton) writes:
|> 
|> >Well perhaps its actually two questions and not one...
|> 
|> >1. I have a 386/33 AMI BIOS 4 MB machine that I'm currently running with
|> >   DOS 5.0 and Desqview-386. I've been reading all the posts about OS/2
|> >   with interest, and wondering if it would do me any good...The main reason
|> >   I'm using Desqview is because I need multitasking, and I'd like access to 
|> >   *all* the memory on the machine. The *other* reason I'm using Desqview is
|> >   that I'm *still* using a CGA adaptor & display. I know, I *should* go out
|> >   and get a super duper spiffy SVGA card and display, but unfortunately I
|> >   can't afford to drop 750-1000 dollars when my current setup works just
|> >   fine for what I'm using it for (Latex, ghostscript, Wordperfect, BC++,
|> >   Quicken, PCPLUS, ... ). So, the question becomes, what, given my current
|> >   hardware, would be the advantages of going to OS/2 ? would it be $100
|> >   worth of advantages?
|> 
|> Although I haven't tried it, I'm pretty certain that OS/2 would be pretty
|> close to terrible on a CGA display. On the bright side, your $750 price
|> tag is pretty high... you can buy a reasonable monitor for ~$300 or less,
|> and many SVGA cards sell for under $100. I would say that if you don't
|> want to spend that money, you'd probably be happier with Desqview. If you
|> were willing to shell out the money, however, I think you'd find 2.0
|> would do everything Desqview does for you and a whole lot more.

But then again Desqview is also terrible looking on a CGA . . . OS/2 2.0 does come
with CGA drivers, but I have never looked at them.

|> 
|> >2. At work, I'm going to be getting a 486/33 machine w/ 8MB and SVGA. I would
|> >   like to get OS/2 for that machine, *except* for one problem. That machine
|> >   will be connected to a network (ethernet) which has several thousand other machines
|> >   on it, many of which are UNIX boxes with X11 R4 or R5 on it. The machine I
|> >   would be getting *must* have X11 capability. I have three primary choices.
|> >   a) run UNIX on the 486, b) run DOS, c) run OS/2. UNIX has X11 support already,
|> >   DOS has X11 servers available (Desqview/X, eXceed, ...). Are there any X11 
|> >   servers available for OS/2 (Not DOS or Windows applications running under
|> >   OS/2, I'm looking for an OS/2 specific application) ?
|> 
|> I think that the IBM TCP/IP product comes with an X server... can someone
|> confirm this?

Confirmed, an X server that displays in PM is an option to IBM TCP/IP 1.2.

|> 
|> >John
|> 
|> Chris

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Robert Kelley Cook     << Cook.14@nd.edu >>
Univ. of Notre Dame     The future for Intel computers arrived March 31!
Physics Dept.            Long Live the new OS/2!  Time to close the Windows! 
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