Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: OS/2 Service Pack Delayed
From: chandoni@husc8.harvard.edu (John-Marc Chandonia, , , )
Date: 2 Oct 92 18:36:10 EDT
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They claim to be working on additional bug fixes... here is the
updated list.  (The entire text can be found on watson, in spann.text)
My comments are in [].

I am inclined to believe that the delay is caused by bugginess
in IBM's SVGA drivers... else, why not include these in the beta?
Why not release the drivers separately, in addition to being part
of the "service pack" - it certainly must be easy to do, as they
expect video makers such as Trident to do so.  It would be a major
blow if the long-awaited 32-bit drivers turned out to be bug-ridden,
as OS/2 is already being trashed weekly by magazines such as Byte and
PC Mag.

Follow up to .advocacy, please.

JMC
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APARS added since previous announcement -------                         
                                                                        
APAR    Defect Abstract                                                 
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JR05097 DOSFREESEG IS CAUSING INTERNAL PROCESSING ERROR. SYSTEM         
JR06321 QUEUE PROCESSOR SHOULD NOT ISSUE ERROR MESSAGE ON PLAYME        
JR06464 NETWORK PRINTER ICON, WHEN BUILT, DOES NOT DUPLICATE THE        
PJ03757 FATAL TRAP 000E (PAGE FAULT)RUNNING APP USING MS CODE           
PJ03780 XCOPY COMMAND DOESN'T WORK IN LAN ENVIRONMENT        APA        
PJ03803 FIND/LOCATE FOR NEW PGM SETTINGS NO DISPLAY ALL DRIVES          
PJ03811 FSFILTER DOESN''T ALLOW REDIRECTION UNDER DR DOS                
PJ03838 OAK TECHNOLOGIES VIDEO ROM MACHINES WILL NOT INSTALL            
PJ03897 SPOOLER PRIORITY HIGHER THEN TIME CRITICAL THREAD               
PJ04052 4 MEG PERFORMACE PACK FOR HPFS                                  
[Meaning HPFS will actually be feasible in 4M?  That would
be a surprise!]

PJ04059 POST ICONS LOST FROM A COPY OF A PROG REF AFTER REBOOT          
PJ04066 OS2-2.0 NLS CANNOT COPY TO CLIPBD IN PM AND PASTE WINOS2        
PJ04211 OS/2 BOOT MANAGER DOES NOT WORK WITH UNIX                       
[great!]

PJ04217 BRING IN LOST IDSS/CMVC PTRS                                    
PJ04220 OS/2 SWITCHES SOME CLONES INTO SLOW (NON-TURBO) MODE.           
PJ04284 BASICA HALTS CLONE SYSTEM.                                      
[great! that will shut up some NT people]

PJ04324 ''ABIOS RQB TOO SMALL'' PANIC COMING FROM IBMTOU.SYS            
PJ04325 CODEVIEW, /O OPTION, DEBUGGING CHILD PROCESSES, HANGS WH        
PJ04358 5.1 CAUSES TRAP0 IN THE KRNL WHILE IN A DOS F SCRN              
PJ04402 NEW PORT DRIVER SETTINGS NEVER CALLED                           
PJ04470 TRAP D IN LDRGETTKMODULEINFO() CS:EIP=160:FFF5CBDB              
PJ04540 TRAP 000D  CS:EIP= 04E8 : 00002889  CSACC= 009F  CSLIM=         
PJ04587 IPE PANIC IN SELREMDISCREC                                      
PJ04664 TSENG 3000 VIDEO BOARDS CAUSE FLICKER AT TOP OF SCREEN.         
PJ04669 PARALLEL PORT INTERRUPT NOT SIMULATED INTO DOS SESSION          
PJ04819 THE COMMAND REFERENCE COM.SYS INFORMATION IS INCOMPLETE         
PJ04878 SYS2237 GENERATED ON NPX INSTRUCTIONS, UNDER REAL DOS WO        
PJ04895 RETRY SHOULD BE DEFAULT PUSHBUTTON FOR PRINTER OFF-LINE         
PJ04960 SYSTEM TAKES TOO LONG TO CLOSE & OPEN WINDOWS, STALLED A        
PJ05044 EMS_LOW_OS_MAP_REGION STALLS AT 384                             
PJ05093 DOSCONNECTNMPIPE RETURNS 109 IN 2.0                             
PJ05157 6.412 KERNEL FIX CAUSES PMV2001  RUNNING SEAMLESS WINDOW        
PJ05360 CAN'T OPEN ALL ICONS IN PRODUCTIVITY FOLDER - PMWIN HEAP        
PJ05438 EPM TRAP 12 IN ETKE550.DLL                                      
PJ05594 WIN-OS/2 XGA SCREEN BLACKS OUT IF POP-UP MESSAGE                
PJ05673 NETWORK PRINT OBJECT TRUNCATES NAMED PIPE TO 8 CHARACTER        
PJ05679 CTRL-ESC DOES NOT DISPLAY W.L. WHEN A DISABLED BUTTON HA        
PJ05683 BACKGROUND PROGRAM CAN'T CONTINUE WHEN VIOPOPUP IN FOREG        
PJ05742 LOTUS: WINDDEINITIATE API CALL CAUSES ACCESS VIOLATION          
PJ05763 OBJECT POINTER WHICH DOES NOT POINT TO ANY CLASS HANGS W        
PJ05769 ATM TRAPS WITH FONT WITH LARGE KERNING TABLE                    
PJ05787 CUSTOMER NEEDS 122 KEYBOARD FUNCTION KEYS SUPPORTED BY P        
PJ06018 VWIN.SYS PLACED IN CONFIG.SYS WHEN DOS/WIN NOT INSTA            
PJ06019 RSPFILE INSTALL WON''T INSTALL 8514/A WHEN USING SEMAINT        
PJ06031 4 MB FILESYSTEM EA PERFORMANCE                                  
[ Again, will this make the WPS usable in 4M? ]

PJ06032 INSTALLING PRINTERS FROM THE CONTROL PANEL KILLS VDM            
PJ06035 MYSTIFY SCREENSAVER CAUSES A GP FAULT AND KILLS VDM             
PJ06057 SYSTEM HANGS DOING DDE W/AMIPRO TO OS2DDE.EXE                   
PJ06058 NACK RUNNING DDE, DIB FORMAT, PM CLIENT / WIN SRVR, VGA         
PJ06059 INSUFFICIENT MEMORY ERROR WHEN PERFORMING DDE                   
PJ06060 CLIPBOARD AND DDE CAN NOT BE SWITCHED TO PRIVATE                
PJ06071 VXGA/SYSTEM DEADLOCKED WAITING FOR COPROCESSOR NOT BUSY         
PJ06072 WINDOWING SVGA 1024X768X16 CREATES A BLANK (BLACK) WINDO        
PJ06073 SVGA.EXE IN A WINDOW PRODUCES TRAPS OR ERROREOUS DATA           
PJ06074 CORRUPTED DOS FS IMAGE (EVEREX CARD)                            
PJ06075 CURSOR CORRUPTION ON SWITCH TO FULLSCREEN WINDOWS SESSIO        
PJ06076 XGA/VGA: SEAMLESS WINDOWS APP ALLOWS ICONS TO BLEED THRO        
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