From: gw18@prism.gatech.EDU (Greg Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: 2.01 Beta: my observations and some info
Date: 27 Sep 92 03:20:01 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

Well, I got my copy of the OS/2 2.01 beta and installed it.  Here's my
experiences with it so far.

First, my system is a 386DX/20, 8Mb RAM, 330 SCSI (Future Domain adaptor),
plain VGA.  I installed the beta in a new partition so I could keep the 2.0 GA
around still (having lots of space is nice  :-) ).

The install went without a hitch mostly, except I got a system hang after
exiting the tutorial.  I had to reboot and the WPS came up fine after that.
I seem to remember this happening when I installed the GA code, so this may
just be a problem with my machine.

The WPS is definitely faster.  The animation didn't really seem that slow to
me, but I never used it on the GA, either.  It seemed very smooth in the beta
version, though.  Boot time is also quicker.  I don't know exactly how much
faster it is, though.

Windows 3.1 is MUCH faster than 3.0.  This will be very pleasent to use when
it is released for real.

Now, my list of bugs I've encountered.
- The system locks up whenever I quit a full screen WIN-OS2 session.  I've
  also had a lockup when I closed all programs in a seamless session, but this
  bug doesn't occur all the time.  I don't get the lockup if I quit the
  session from the CTRL-ESC menu (ugly, but effective).

- After rebooting from one of these lockups, some of my icons are misplaced.
  I think it may only be the ones I've just added and haven't done a proper
  shutdown after adding them.

- I've also been unable to get Word for Windows 2.0a to change to any font
  other than the default.  When I tried to turn on ATM, I could not get it to
  acknowledge that it had any ATM fonts.

- Swapping between a full screen windows session and OS/2 desktop causes some
  odd screen behavior.  Part of the windows screen shows up on the OS/2
  desktop briefly and then everything redraws.

- Sometimes desktop icons will continue to have the cross-hatches on them
  even after I've closed the application.

- When I open the settings notebook on a windows program and try to change the
  WIN-OS/2 settings, I've noticed that all my windows programs are indicated
  to run as OS/2 window programs.  Pressing the Default button selects the
  WIN-OS/2 radio button, which is initially disabled.  I can then change the
  WIN-OS/2 settings, and the WIN-OS/2 radio buttons are then enabled.

I've seen a lot of messages where others have encountered the some of the
same bugs I have.  If someone who has Compuserve access would be kind soul
and post them for us, I think everyone here would appreciate it.

A hint for those of you who don't know, you can get around the problem of
having programs that you've quit start up when you reboot.  In your config.sys
add the following line:

SET RESTARTOBJECTS=STARTUPFOLDERSONLY

This will only start up applications you've put in the startup folder.  Look
in the FAQ for the other options you can put on this line.  This is also very
useful if some program caused a system crash, and you don't want it to start
up on a reboot because it'll crash again.

-- 
Greg Williams
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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