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From: abledsoe@feenix.metronet.com (Alton Bledsoe)
Subject: Re: Future of OS/2 and IBM????????????
Organization: Tx Metronet Communications Services, Dallas Tx
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 14:25:16 GMT

In article <85588@ut-emx.uucp> jbodnar@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (John Bodnar) writes:
>According to wcn@cs.brown.edu (Wen-Chun Ni):
>>My understanding is that the mainframe section of IBM is in trouble. The
>>to-be-laid-off people and to-be-sold assets are mostly dealing with
>>mainframes. Because of this, the roles of workstations and PCs become
>>very crucial to IBM's survivability. I see this as a sign of IBM's
>>continuous support of OS/2 as well as AIX.
>
>Folks, please get this straight.  It is not IBM's policy to lay people off.
>The large number of people that left last year did so under a voluntary
>retirement program.  They may attempt to do the same thing this year,
>although in a worst case situation, it is suspected that IBM might have to
>resort to layoffs.
>
>As for the mainframe business, there is still hope.  IBM is now focusing
>its marketing efforts by touting mainframes as 'one hell of a server.'
>Recent reports in DP magazines tend to give credence to this.  Furthermore,
>if IBM can put its mainframe technology into smaller boxes, who's not to
>say that an AS/400 sized mainframe would be impossible.  This would be a
>plausible solution for companies doing a lot of transaction processing on
>Big Blue Big Iron.  The mainframe business may never be the same for IBM,
>but a shift in marketing strategies and technology could at least make it a
>profitable division of a more diversified IBM.
>-- 
>John Bodnar                          : Friends don't let friends use Windows!
>The University of Texas at Austin    : But I'm still waiting for Microsoft
>Internet: jbodnar@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu : Solitaire NT!  Heaven forbid, another
>UUCP: ....!cs.utexas!ut-ccwf!jbodnar : productive user of OS/2 v2.0!

Case in point to the above is the POWER/4 announced 12-10-92 before
the plunge.  In comp.unix.aix it was announced a 4 processor
shared memeory parallel mp using 42 MHz RS6000 boards.  336 MFLOPS,
not a mainframe -- but a DEC/Alpha match -- room to up the clockrate
and number of processors.  Strategic alliances with people like Bull
do pay off!  Make room for the new capitol of IBM -- Austin!
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From: richk@grebyn.com (Richard Krehbiel)
Subject: TRAP 000E coming from DOS?
Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 17:56:16 GMT

Does anyone recognize this?  I've gotten three TRAP 000Es of the very
same sort, all immediately after starting a DOS command line while
there is signficant other system activity.  Twice this happened when I
started a DOS command line while TE/2 was downloading, and once it
happened when I started DOS while xemacs was starting GNUS, which is
very disk intensive.

It's easy to avoid this trap by starting DOS only when the system is
not busy, when all tasks are idling.  It's also very easy to
reproduce.

TRAP 000E
LOCATION ##160:FFF6459E - 00D:959E

Internal revision 6.466, 92/10/15

This is with the GA + SP.  I've got a 386/33, a ULSI 387, 8M RAM, VGA,
Adaptec 1542B with two SCSI disks.
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OS/2 2.0 will do for me until AmigaDOS for the 386 comes along...
From: ez003045@hamlet.ucdavis.edu (James E. Lee)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Need util to allow .EXE to run in a window
Date: 30 Dec 92 20:28:56 GMT
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Does anyone know why an os/2 cmd window will not switch to f/s and back
using <alt>+<home>?  Is there a key combination that works?  Is it me?

jel
From: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca (Steve Frampton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Why does OS/2 think Windows apps keep running?
Date: 23 Dec 92 04:05:14 GMT
Reply-To: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca
Followup-To: poster
Organization: Vicuna Systems, Kingston, Ontario, CANADA
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Hi all:

I've been having a minor problem that is just taxing my patience:  When
I run a Windows application under OS/2 (seamless; using WinOS2) for some
reason when I exit the application OS/2 often seems to think that the
application continues to run (the icon has the cross-hatches on it
indicating the icon is active).

Then when I go to shut down the system, I get prompted if I really
want to exit without saving data in the Windows session(s) first
(which of course, I did, a long time ago).  Of course the only way to
shutdown is to confirm -- but then all these Windows apps get loaded
automatically the next time I boot OS/2.

A minor pain in the butt, which I would like solved if at all possible.
I am temporarily without read-access to the OS/2 groups, please respond
via e-mail, I shall summarize if response dictates.

Thanks in advance.

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From: cjmarsha@slate.mines.colorado.edu (Charles Marshall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: CMS Jumbo 250 use under OS2 2.0
Date: 29 Dec 92 02:53:45 GMT
Organization: Colorado School of Mines

jardined@qucis.queensu.ca (Donald Jardine) writes:
:  
: Nope... nothing of yet on support for controller cards.  As of now, we are
: looking to release our floppy controller card OS/2 solution sometime in
: Jan.
: 
: I'll post to the newsgroup as soon as it is released with all the info you
: guys need!
: 
: Thanks for your continued interest!!
: 
: Danielle.

I got a call from CMS the other day saying they have the CMS support for
OS/2 complete and ready to go.  $99 to upgrade.  

Charles

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From: Zak.Smith%f736.n154.z1@xanadu.mil.wi.us (Zak Smith)
Sender: FredGate@xanadu.mil.wi.us
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: ProAudioSpectrum16 in Dos Box
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 12:31:00 -0600

 I just bought a Pro Audio Spectrum 16 and it works great in Dos.  I have my 
machine set up with boot manager (dos, os2), but I would like to use it 
under os2.  I do not need to use it in anything fancy, just in a single 
booted dos os2 seesion will be fine.  I have tried it so far and I can get 
the Sequencer to work, but PlayFile.exe will not run correctly.  It ends up 
looping the first second or so until I abort it.  I am using IRQ 7 for the 
soundblaster support, and I have tried IRQs 10, 11, and 12 and DMAs 3 and 5 
in my MVSOUND.SYS line in the config.sys on my boot image.. (irq 5 is an 
ethernet board) Any Ideas?

- Zak  (email: zak.smith@xanadu.mil.wi.us)







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From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
Subject: Re: Adaptec AHA-1542B and large SCSI questions
Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 18:37:55 GMT

In <1ht5e0INNcak@neuro.usc.edu> merlin@neuro.usc.edu (merlin) writes:

>>Hmm, I had that information straight from an Adaptec Senior Engineer
>>(that the PROM upgrade is only for MS-DOS and would break most of the
>>other drivers in embedded support (OS/2, UNIX)) because they relied on
>>the translation being done the 'old' way.  Apparently ONE of you is
>>mistaken; what I need now is a good way to know which of you it is.

>Crock of sh*t!!!  Dunno 'bout OS/2 -- but at least for SCO UNIX SYSV/386 
>3.2r2.0 ODT 1.1 the Adaptec BIOS upgrade causes no problem.  Indeed, any
>operating system which doesn't believe whatever the Adaptec controller
>tells it about disk geometry -- and instead relies on it's own peculiar
>belief system about geometry of particular disks is not going to do well
>in the marketplace where disk drive geometry changes with each new drive
>released.  Why require an OS upgrade for new drive geometry when it would
>be much simple just to believe the Adaptec controller translation?

Hmmm.  I have two people from Adaptec who disagree about this, and you
think YOU know better what ADAPTEC did?  Crock of shit, yourself.
Personally, I'd like to get my information from someone who KNOWS the
correct answer; not someone who asserts that their answer must be
correct just BECAUSE.

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From: hhsiao@vnet.ibm.com (Harry Hsiao)
Date: Wed, 30 Dec 92 09:45:54 EST
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: How to disable WPS
News-Software: UReply 3.0
X-X-From: Harry Hsiao
            <1992Dec29.151009.8438@midway.uchicago.edu>

In <1992Dec29.151009.8438@midway.uchicago.edu> Jeremy Mathers writes:
>In article <19921229.024522.263@almaden.ibm.com> KENKAHN@PKSMRVM.VNET.IBM.COM (Kenneth A. Kahn) writes:
>...
>>>Is there any way to disable the OS/2 WPS when booting OS/2?
>...
>>In your CONFIG.SYS change the line that reads PROTSHELL=C:/OS2/PMSHELL.EXE
>>to PROTSHELL=C:/OS2/CMD.EXE;  be warned though that this environment will not
>>support any PM applications, only Full Screen.  Also there is only a single
>>screen group; i.e. you can't switch between different processes.
>
>I think the SHFTRUN solution is better.  How to do it is documented
>elsewhere in this group, so I won't go into it, but it allows you to
>boot quickly to a command prompt if you choose to.  I have found it very
>handy.

Kenneth's solution did work, however, I could not shutdown nor Ctrl-Alt-Del
after I disable WPS.

Does SHFTRUN provide a better solution? I missed the posting you mentioned
and I don't have access to the old postings. Would you please repost it
here?

Harry Hsiao
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: altman@cs.sunysb.edu (Jeff Altman)
Subject: Re: Num Lock???
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, State U of NY at Stony Brook
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Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 20:52:13 GMT

Nick Zahariadis (g1nickut@cdf.toronto.edu) wrote:
: In article <1992Dec30.182954.12522@ultb.isc.rit.edu> jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
: >Why the #$%@ does OS/2 turn off my numlock key when it boots up??
: >My BIOS (AMI) is set to turn it on.
: >
: >Help, this is driving me nuts....
: 
:  I feel the same way exactly! I have been trying to figure this one out
:  for a while and I can't find an answer. Someone please help.
: 

You can thank the early users of OS/2 1.0 for this feature.  Remember
that when OS/2 1.0 was released there were few if any extended keyboards
with separate number keypads.  Most users used the keypads as arrow keys.

Therefore, IBM programmers received tons of complaints when they turned
on the NumLock key automatically as was originally the default.  Because
IBM likes to be consistent (not a bad thing to be) they have never 
changed it back now that extended keyboards are more common.

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From: tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Curious problem
Date: Fri, 25 Dec 92 20:35:08 CST
Reply-To: zeta%tcscs@src.honeywell.com
Organization: TCS Consulting Services

I have just installed SIO020 and set it up and tested it out.

It worked quite well for COM1, COM3 and COM4 (Mouse on COM2 was detected)

I used Telemate 3.10 to test it on all the com ports (I set it up for my
configuration) and was able to talk to the modem on all the com ports I
tested.  After exiting telemate, I do a dir (with a utility that I've been
using for quite a while with NO problems at all) and OS/2 is crashed.  

I dont recall the exact message, something about illegal instruction or
something like that.

The interesting thing is, IRQ2 (for COM3) was recognized as IRQ9.  Why is
that?

I've uninstalled SIO now so I can return stability to my system.  Does anyone
have any ideas what this might be???

Also...second question.  I want to move my mouse to com4.  Is this possible?
I tried moving the mouse and vmouse(?) after I defined COM4, but VMOUSE
wouldn't load, so I had no mouse at all in the system. :(

Is there a way I can do this?

Thanks
Greg

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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: 256 colors with VGA OR Where is the Doctor
Date: 2 Jan 93 17:46:40 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <Mark_Morrill-231292103200@mac84081.educ.ualberta.ca> Mark_Morrill@itc.educ.ualberta.ca (Mark Morrill) writes:
>I would like to have 256 colors with VGA. Windows can do it, so why can't I
>have it in OS/2 v2?
>Actually, we are probably just going to use XGA if I can't find 256 colors
>on VGA. This will mean that our users will have to shell out extra money to
>upgrade to XGA if they only have VGA. Nah, they'll just not use the
>product.

Amusing little anecdote you've got there (:-)), but, in order to
provide some assistance, one key bit of information is necessary,
namely what sort of SuperVGA adapter are you using?

There is NO hardware standard for SuperVGA; hence, you need a driver
specific to your video adapter.  (Well, that's an oversimplification.
Actually, IBM has succeeded in writing a "generic" set of drivers that
works with several SuperVGA adapters.  But I digress.)

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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: XGA-2 Clarification
Date: 22 Dec 92 17:31:53 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Dec19.160935.1073@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU> jurlwin@gandalf.UMCS.Maine.EDU (Jeff Urlwin) writes:
>Bus mastering *is* possible on the ISA bus.  The Adaptec 154X SCSI 
>controllers have been doing it for years (there are PLENTY other
>cards that do it too, but I can't even begin to list them all).
>And the 1542B just cost me $251, mail order.

And Adaptec's non-bus mastering card (1422B, I think) costs about $100
less.  That's probably the cost of licensing the bus-mastering
chipset.  Radius also has to pay this.

As for using two bus-master cards at once, it's not a problem as long
as they both agree on a protocol.  That's why two Adaptec boards can
co-exist on one computer.  If the Radius board uses the same protocol
that Adaptec does (likely, if they use the same chipset - does anyone
know if they do?), then it can co-exist easilly.
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From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: UART16550AFN??
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 05:20:52 GMT

In article <1992Dec28.190850.24181@ultb.isc.rit.edu> jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
> What company (ie, semiconductor manufacturer) makes this chip and
> what places can I get it from??
> 
> Jeff

The full name for this chip is the NS16550AFN by National
Semi-Conductor....who were bought out by Hitachi...(I think).
 
Steve

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From: jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: leave OS/2 running - the monitor too?
Date: 27 Dec 92 18:37:12 GMT
Organization: UT Health Science Center Houston

In article <Bzpsq1.A80@world.std.com> bsn@world.std.com (Brent S Noorda) writes:
>TURN IT OFF.  If you're not making smogulous smog you can see then you're
>making smogulous smog you can't see, and if you're not making smogulous
>smog then you're flooding people from their homelands and poisoning the
>waterways.

Standard enviro-weenie scare tactics.

The simple fact is that the computer running all night uses less electricity
than many other things that we take for granted as running all night...like
refrigerators, air conditioners,...

>If you were designing a computer, wouldn't you design it so that it could
>withstand the tremendous pressures of being turned on and off once a day
>for a few years?

Power-up stresses are responsible for most electronic failures, computer and
otherwise. In particular, it's very hard on things like disk drives to turn
them on and off, and some of them (like the Conner CP3044 in the machine I'm
typing on at the moment) don't like to turn on after being off for a while.

Leave it on. You're not going to hurt anything, and you'll make your computer
happier.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: shane@cs.UAlberta.CA (Ruman Shane James)
Subject: OS/2 drive problems
Organization: University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
Distribution: na
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 07:21:32 GMT

	I recently installed a second drive to my os/2 system( Maxtor
	213a) its configured as a slave fat drive the only weird things
	is that the old drive that used to be c and d logical drives is
	now  c and e while the new drive d.  Dos and norton disk doctor,
	etc don't find any problems with the drive but whenever I try to
	acces s the drive in OS/2 it crashes with a trapp 000e message
	or nothing at all.  I know the ram is n't bad beacuse it worked
	perfect yesterday and I ran a couple ram testers on it.  The
	os/2 system is on the old drive and under c logical drive.  I
	was hoping, desperately hoping anyone could help me out.
	Assistance would be greatly apprecieated.
								Shane

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From: cambria@smaug.enet.dec.com (Michael C. Cambria)
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1 beta to be released 12-28 to EVERYONE!!
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 21:09:08 GMT


In article <92363.132259I18BC@CUNYVM.BITNET>, I18BC@CUNYVM.BITNET (CUNY/Spartacus) writes...
>In article <gZ0gwB1w165w@tcscs.UUCP>, tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory
>Youngblood) says:
>>If I understand what is going on with the CD, you will end up with a complete
>>set of installable disks.  Is that correct?
>>
>The set of installable disks are in what IBM called Diskimage format.
>Its basically all the files mushed together into one larger file.
>An executable program called LOADDSKF.EXE will breakup the file
>into the smaller files it's made up of onto a floppy.  Make sure
>you copy loaddskf onto a floppy along with the diskimages.
> 
>[stuff deleted]


Do you know if there will be images for 5.25" disks (or if LOADDSKF.EXE
will be able to "breakup" all the "files mushed together" into 5.25"
"smaller files"?)

Thanks,
/Mike
From: mok@pa.dec.com (Charles Mok)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: IBM OS/2 Programmer Development Kit
Date: 24 Dec 1992 17:44:57 GMT
Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
Distribution: world
NNTP-Posting-Host: vajra.pa.dec.com

How do I order the IBM OS/2 Programmer Development Kit?  Is there a number to call at IBM or is it sold retail at stores?  Please help.

Since I may miss the posting in this newsgroup, I would also appreciate it if you could mail me the answer.  Thank you!

Charles

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From: ljensen@netcom.com (Colin Jensen)
Subject: Re: OS/2 and Logitech mice?
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services (408 241-9760 guest)
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 1992 06:41:43 GMT

In article <1htu39INN71j@gap.caltech.edu> nyet@cco.caltech.edu (n liu) writes:
>I have a Logitech 3-button serial mouse (version c7) and no real
>complaints... except that after booting msdos I have to cycle the
>power to make the mouse work under os/2 (reset and c-a-del render the
>mouse ineffective) This only occurs if I have the logitech driver
>loaded during the dos boot session. The SP did not fix this, I didn't
>bother notifying IBM (apathy ... ;-) Anybody else notice this?

The "fault" is entirely the mouse's problem.
The solution to this problem is in the FAQ (ahem).

You should use "mouse pc" when you invoke the MS-DOS mouse
driver instead of just "mouse".  If you don't wish to mess with
your DOS config.sys, just try unplugging the mouse and plugging
it back in - definitely easier on your system than the big
red switch...
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From: bert.tyler@satalink.com (Bert Tyler) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Why not standard VESA
Date: 22 Dec 92 09:50:00 GMT
Distribution: world
Organization: Datamax/Satalink Connection * Ivyland, PA (215) 443-9434
Reply-To: bert.tyler@satalink.com (Bert Tyler) 


>1.  Can OS/2 provide virtual VESA services to DOS apps?

>The answer to #1 is yes, as Bert Tyler points out.  It hasn't been done yet,

SM>Correction: Mr. Tyler said it COULD NOT be done. I stated that it can.

Uhh, Scott - that message was correct as written.  Someone stated
that OS/2 could not support the background execution of VESA-mode
DOS apps, I responded with a message saying that that I didn't
understand why it couldn't, and the original poster replied with
the response that I was right and that OS/2 *could* technically do
this - but doesn't at the moment.  My guess is that you were thinking
of another series of messages and mis-understood which one this was
talking about.

                   Bert Tyler   (bert.tyler@satalink.com)
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From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Bernoulli drives and OS/2.
Date: 22 Dec 92 17:12:14 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Dec17.042314.38275@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> jas8@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Jeff Spirko) writes:
>Conclusion:
>   Bernoullis formatted under DOS can only be read in DOS or in OS/2 with
>   drivers.
>   Bernoullis can be formatted and used under OS/2 without drivers, but they
>   will be unusable in DOS.

It seems to me like OS/2 is seeing the Bernoulli as a huge floppy, so
it formats it with the floppy algorithm.  When the drivers are
installed, the disk is formatted in the Iomega way.

Under DOS, the drive is inacessible without Iomega's drivers, right?
This being the case, it would only be able to read Iomega-format
disks.
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