From: adhir@cygnus.umd.edu (Alok Dhir)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2, VERY cool!
Date: 19 Aug 92 01:49:48 GMT
Organization: /etc/organization

In article <9251@travis.csd.harris.com> mikem@travis.csd.harris.com (Mike McCole) writes:
>In article <165.2A8F4274@gisatl.fidonet.org> june@f308.n133.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Ed June) writes:
>-On <Aug 14 20:44>, Mike McCole of 1:133/411 wrote to All:
>-
>- MM- From: mikem@travis.csd.harris.com (Mike McCole)
>- MM> Date: 11 Aug 92 01:55:15 GMT
>- MM> Organization: Harris Computer Systems Division, Fort Lauderdale, FL
>- MM> Message-ID: <9167@travis.csd.harris.com>
>- MM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
>-
>- MM> All good games run under dos, OS/2 will cause you untold 
>- MM> grief trying to run games, it can be done but you have to tweak 
>- MM> for every little wierdness your games come up with.
>-
>-Funny, as high speed connections to the bbs are doin' they're thing RELIABLY, I can play, at the same time, any dos game I care to.
>-
>-I love it!
>-Oh, this on a 'low life' 20mHz '386 w/ 8mb memory...
>---  
>-Ed June
>-
>-Fidonet:   1:133/308, Atlanta's OS/2 Users Group BBS, 404-471-1549
>
>Ed,
>
> Apparently you don't care to play DOS games that tax your hardware.
> Try that with the DOS game Ultima VII and post your results.
>

What kind of BS is this?  I've had enough of all this OS/2 is this and
OS/2 is that from people who don't know OS/2 from a rat's ass.  I have
been running OS/2 2.0 for about 3 months now on my work machine and on
my home machine, and it is EXCELLENT.  

This is not to say that I haven't had my share of OS/2 headaches.  It is
a bitch if it doesn't like your hardware, and ends up taking a while
getting it set up OK, but once you're set, it is a godsend.

I have not crashed OS/2 in over a month now.  

I often play Ultima Underworld in a full screen DOS session while a 14.4K
transfer goes at 1650cps in the background, no problem at all.  So far,
there are two things I couldn't get OS/2 to work with, Mathematica for
Windows and Autodesk 3D Studio.  Other than these two (which, by the way,
try to kick the 386 into proteced mode, which OS/2 does not allow),
everything has worked perfectly.

As far as protected mode apps go, as the DPMI memory spec gets incorporated
into more and more software, they will no longer be a problem.

One final thing, once Windows NT comes out, if it is better than OS/2 at
multitasking, etc, I will switch to it.  It's stupid to get fanatical about
some OS or computer system.  I just want something that works as advertised,
and OS/2 DOES.

PS - my system is a Zenon 486/50 EISA w/8 megs ram...my system at work is
     an IBM PS/2 model 90.  I use IDE and SCSI together at home and SCSI
     at work.  My system has an Orchid PDII Eisa card with the .9 beta 
     level ET4000 Orchid drivers at 1024x768x256...still waiting for
     release drivers.  At work, obviously I use XGA (it's a PS/2).

Flames/comments welcome.
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