HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: s6883289@titan.ucc.umass.edu (Peter Hawkins)
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 Advertising
Organization: University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 01:36:13 GMT

>Well, here at Umass-Amherst  IBM had a little (I mean LITTLE) showing
>of PS/2.  They had a 386-33 with 10 MB running WINDOZE?????
>
>why on earth is IBM showing its own PS/2 running Windows?
>I asked the rep. "why aren't these running OS/2" he
>said 'the machine doesn't have enough RAM'
>
>Clueless is all I have to say

nah, i think what you saw this afternnon was a computer dealer trying to sell
PS/2s, they are not from IBM. anyways, the computer store people were truly
ignorant. when i asked about about os/2 2.0 the person there said "well, if
you order 1.3 now, you can get a free upgrade when 2.0 is avaiable later this
year". and that was last week... *sigh*

>IBM get your act together.

IBM should defintely let others know that os/2 2.0 _is available now_!!!
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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: Infoworld Headlines
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 03:17:54 GMT

>In article <1992Apr07.190935.12183@atl.scscom.com> chris@atl.scscom.com (Chris Boaro) writes:
>>"OS/2 2.0 Stumbles but Shows Promise", which goes on to say a few nice 
>>things about 2.0, but harps on the current absence of a netware requester.
>>It does say that the 2.0 desktop puts the Windoze interface to shame. The
>>closing comments say that users wanting a mature, "robust" operating system
>>will have to wait a bit longer.

I really take exception with that Infoworld "First Look."  HAD to be a
beta, not the real code.  Especially when the tester said it took "20
diskettes" (nope, it's 21).
-- 
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sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu  List, available via anonymous ftp from
Dept. of Economics       128.123.35.151, directory pub/os2/faq, or via
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From: fineberg@eng.uiowa.edu (Sam Fineberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Backup programs
Date: 16 Apr 92 18:02:27 GMT
Organization: Department of Elect. and Comp. Engr., University of Iowa, USA.
Originator: fineberg@hitchcock

Sam
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jason@jarthur.claremont.edu (Jason Merrill)
Subject: Big problems with OS/2 2.0 GA
Organization: Harvey Mudd College
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 23:27:05 GMT

Problem #1:

It always bothered me after moving from DESQview to Windows 3.0 that
Windows multitasked communications apps so poorly.  I am a big fan of the
Kermit terminal emulation program put out by Columbia University, and was
disappointed that I had to drop down to 9600 baud to avoid losing
characters.

I expected this problem to go away when I moved to OS/2 2.0. Boy, was I
wrong.  Not only do I continue to lose characters, but I even lose
characters when communicating as slowly as 4800 baud!  I really don't want
to work at 2400 baud when my connection supports 19200.

Problem #2:  I backed up my HD with Norton Backup for Windows before
reformatting HPFS and installing OS/2.  Then I found that NBW running under
OS/2 couldn't read the floppies.  I really would rather not have to
reinstall DOS and Windows to restore my HD.  I used the proprietary NBW
format, which involves a larger sector size than usual.

Problem #3:  I expected it to be faster.  It seems to my subjective
viewpoint to be considerably slower than Win 3.1 on my 8MB, 20Mhz 386,
just running itself.  I don't want to double-click on an icon and wait 5
seconds for it to respond every time.  Would it be faster if I went back to
FAT?

Does anyone have any ideas as to solutions?  I'm seriously considering
giving up on the whole OS/2 concept.  It sounded great in theory, but the
harsh light of truth isn't very flattering.  Thus far I've gotten better
results from Win 3.1...

Jason Merrill
jason@jarthur.claremont.edu
From: tcf9033@venus.tamu.edu (FREY, TONY C)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Diamond Stealth drivers for OS/2?
Date: 16 Apr 92 06:52:00 GMT
Organization: Texas A&M University, Academic Computing Services
News-Software: VAX/VMS VNEWS 1.41

In article <1992Apr15.154329.6250@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>, quan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (To>In article <1992Apr15.092639.19146@pilikia.pegasus.com> william@pilikia.pegasus.com (William Kwok) writes:

>Don't bother to call Diamond.  I called their BBS (it's local) and they 
>said that Diamond will not be writing drivers for the Diamond Stealth
>or the SpeedStar.  They are awaiting generic OS/2 2.0 drivers from S3
>and Tseng, respectively.  Once these drivers appear they will post them
>on the BBS.  Unfortunately they say that neither Tseng nor S3 has given
>them a definite date for these drivers :-(
> 
>--Tony
>quan@cs.stanford.edu

 This seems to be contrary to what a lot of other people (including myself)
have been told.  I was told on Monday that they are already writing the
drivers and that they would probably be out sometime in May or June. Someone
else on the net said basically the same thing.  This may be a case of the
left hand not knowing what the right hand is doing.  I presume that if
enough Stealth owners or future owners call and request the drivers they
would be more than willing to write them.  Let's hope. 
_________________________________________________
                         |                       |
Tony Frey                |  I love OS/2!!        |
Texas A&M University     |                       |
TCF9033@VENUS.TAMU.EDU   |  It's what Windows    |    
                         |  should have been!    |   
_________________________|_______________________|

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From: rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain)
Subject: Re: Help Requested
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 21:05:11 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Distribution: usa

This week's PC Magazine presents OS/2's capabilities quite well and in a
real ho-hum fashion but factually.  How they justify the opinions they
express side by side with the facts they present is beyond me and I
strongly believe indicates payola (so fucking sue me PC Mag.)

Bob
-- 
Bob Cain    rcain@netcom.com   408-358-2007

"There are some strings.  They're just not attached."
                                                    Victoria Roberts
From: max@underg.UUCP (Max Cray)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Egghead
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 92 21:45:18 EDT
Organization: Underground Computing Foundation

ddulay@jarthur.claremont.edu (Dan Dulay) writes:

> I think that IBM shouldn't have bothered w/ GA on 3/31 since it's almost
> impossible to get the product until the end of this month.  Does anyone 
> agree w/ me on this?

Yes. They should have had two date. GR - General Release (3/31), and GA - 
General Availability (4/30). Seriously though, I think the big thing now is 
to crank out those copies as fast as possible. Maybe even hold off on 
advertising until the rush is over. It can be frustrating seeing a fine 
product, but being told you can not have it.

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From: rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold)
Subject: Re: Cant I write to harddisk in Booted DOS window ?
Organization: Qualcomm, Inc., San Diego, CA
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 19:33:23 GMT

pierma@linus.umd.edu (Matt Piermarini) writes:
>There is a device driver called FSFILTER.SYS in the \os2\mdos subdirectory that you will need to include in the config.sys for the DOS you boot.


Has anyone else run into a problem with FSFILTER.SYS not working when
MS-DOS 5.0 is the booted system?  No error messages, just wont access
drive d:...

-- 
Russia has abolished God, but so far God has been more tolerant.  -- Swayze
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Michael D Kretzer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Norton desktop on OS/2-WIN shell?
Date: 8 Apr 92 19:04:09 GMT
Article-I.D.: uwm.1992Apr8.190409.22902
Reply-To: tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu
Organization: University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Originator: tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu

From article <53955@hydra.gatech.EDU>, by gt0040a@prism.gatech.EDU (Thomas Michael Sorensen):
> In <1992Apr7.023204.6625@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
> 
>>not operate (OS/2 2.0 provides undelete itself), but otherwise it
> 
> Really? Where? I haven't seen undelete on 6.304.

Undelete is definitely in 6.304 and has been in every beta I've ever seen.
Unfortunately, the 'default' is not to have undelete, so you have to delete
the REM before the DELDIR statement in the CONFIG.SYS in order for things
to work properly.
From: dourte@IRO.UMontreal.CA (Louis Dourte)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: TCP/IP and X-Windows
Date: 16 Apr 92 16:54:27 GMT
Organization: Universite de Montreal


In article <gdoucett.23@gdoucette.stfx.ca>, gdoucett@gdoucette.stfx.ca (G. Doucette) writes:
|> 
|> What TCP/IP and X-Windows packages are available for OS/2?
|> 
|> Gary
|> 
|> | Gary Doucette                     E-Mail:     doucette@phoeniX.StFX.Ca |
|> |                                   Telephone:  (902) 867-2275           |
|> | Unix Systems Manager              Fax:        (902) 867-5153           |
|> | CC, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, NS, CANADA, B2G 1C0     |

IBM sells a TCP/IP for OS/2 package that includes, if I remember correctly, a X Windows server and a even a news-reader. I have never used or seen the product,
but it's been referred to often in the past either in this group or in
comp.os.os2.misc.
--
Louis Dourte
Departement d'informatique et de recherche operationnelle
Universite de Montreal
e-mail: dourte@IRO.UMontreal.CA
From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Idiots at the Magazines
Date: 6 Apr 92 21:08:40 GMT
Organization: New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, N.J.

In article <1992Apr3.103823.10869@hemlock.cray.com> bgm@cray.com (Bert Moshier) writes:
>In article <1992Apr1.164624.24433@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
>>How about this one:  In the May issue of PC Mag, John Dvorak writes a
>>list of reasons why "OS/2 has failed".  Past tense.  Amazing how he
>>considers a program to have failed before the release date.
>>Especially when you consider that articles for the May issue were
>>probably written sometime in February.  And then he does nothing more
>>than re-hash the same thing he wrote two years ago about OS/2 1.2...
>
>David:
>
>Write a letter or the magazine will never know the difference.

In PC-Week, there are numerous letters complaining about Mr. Dvorak
every month.  I think they keep him on for the controversy.



-- 
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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 "Buglet" Report
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 02:25:28 GMT

In article <1992Apr13.001224.15216@uwm.edu> tanith@csd4.csd.uwm.edu writes:
>From article <1992Apr12.165717.12899@midway.uchicago.edu>, by sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples):
>>>I don't notice any difference in mouse movement between DOS and OS/2.
>>>I even tried Framework III & QuickBASIC and neither seemed jerky like
>>>full screen Win-OS/2.  
>> The Framework III and QuickBASIC examples are not "jerky," but they do
>> have exceptionally slow "mouse tracking" (meaning that you have to
>> move the mouse an inordinate amount to get the pointer to move.  Is
>> there a setting to adjust this (sometimes called the "ballistic"
>> behavior) with the mouse driver?
>Have you tried messing with the DOS settings?  I've found that for jerky
>mouse settings in DOS programs, turning up IDLE_SENSITIVITY to 90-100
>always eliminates any trace of jerkiness.

Quite correct.  I turned up IDLE_SENSITIVITY for the full screen
Win-OS/2 session and got -- less jerkiness.  Disk access will
temporarily cause jerkiness, but I guess it does that under Windows,
too.

The slow tracking problem remains, however.  There must be a way to
adjust this.  Any DOS mouse device driver (well, at least the ones I'm
familiar with) have a "tracking" or "ballistic" setting.  Perhaps
something undocumented?

>> I think that could be the case.  Perhaps a reworking of the
>> "percentage complete" counter would be in order.  It shouldn't look
>> like it freezes (otherwise make the counter run more slowly).
>Regardless, my drive light flashes on/off continuously, even when the
>"percentage complete" counter stops momentarily...doesn't bother me at 
>all as long as the drive keeps going :)

Mine too.  Just disconcerting, that's all.  It would be nice if the
percentage count had some relationship to real time.
-- 
Timothy F. Sipples       Keeper of the OS/2 Frequently Asked Questions
sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu  List, available via anonymous ftp from
Dept. of Economics       128.123.35.151, directory pub/os2/faq, or via
Univ. of Chicago  60637  netmail from LISTSERV@BLEKUL11.BITNET.
From: harald@vall.dsv.su.se (Harald Fragner)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: ATI Ultra in 256 color mode?
Date: 15 Apr 92 21:39:07 GMT
Distribution: comp
Organization: Stockholm University, Sweden

andy@huey.jpl.nasa.gov (Andy Poulsen) writes:
: What is required to get an ATI Ultra into 256 color mode at 1024x768?
: I'm using the 8514 driver that comes standard, but it seems to only be
: in 16 color mode.  Any ideas?

I don't think there IS such a 16 colour mode. You're probably running
256 colours aldready. Click "Edit" in the colour palette, then click
"solid colour". Now it should be easy to determine if you have 16 or
256 solid colours.
/Harald
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 92 09:37:47 CST
From: gthome@ausvm1.VNET.IBM.COM
Subject: HELP: OS/2 2.0 GA with networks
Reply-To: gthome@ausvm1.VNET.IBM.COM
Organization: IBM - Austin
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 2.0
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc

In <1992Apr16.145702.588@tcom.stc.co.uk> Ian King writes:
>Does OS/2 2.0 (shrink wrapped) work with LAN Networks without buying
>additional s/w?. I've got confused over this as the on-line doc seems
>to suggest that it will. Plus some people on the net say that it does
>if you run the DOS network from a DOS window. I tried this & it wouldnt
>load. Complains about wrong version of DOS. The network is PowerLAN and
>is Netbios-based.
>
>Also when I try to run DOS full screen, it screws up the video card. Am I
>correct in that this is normal behaviour for et4000ax boards without
>special drivers. Will the OS/2 1.x drivers that came with card work? Or
>would I be wasting more time?
>
>I'm a completely new user of OS/2 & would really like it to be successful
>but I think I'm going to have to go back to win3.1 since that at least does
>work with the network.
>
>Regards....
>...........Ian
>--
>Advance Micro Computers Ltd & WOLVERTON RAIL, PO Box 362, Olney, Bucks,MK46 5EY.
>tel:0234-711615 fax:0234-240976 mobile:0831-535618 email:ianking@tcom.stc.co.uk
>  "Olney, famous for the hymm Amazing Grace and the original Pancake Race"
> "WOLVERTON RAIL(transport videos) run by enthusiasts FOR THE ENTHUSIAST"
>
OS/2 2.0 does run with networks.  Any app that runs in Windows should run
in OS/2 2.0

Gerry Thome
IBM - Austin
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: quan@Xenon.Stanford.EDU (Tony Quan)
Subject: Re: Is this really Seamless?
Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1992 17:28:16 GMT

In article <19920410.070659.19@almaden.ibm.com> ian@vnet.ibm.com writes:
>
>At present I believe seamless is limited to VGA resolution.  If you want
>higher resolution you can run windows apps individually in WIN-OS2
>fullscreen sessions, or run PROGMAN in a WIN-OS2 session.
>

This is wrong.  The shipping version of 2.0 includes support
for Super VGA seamless.  Now if the video board companies would
only write the drivers....

--Tony
quan@cs.stanford.edu



Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: mark@student.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell, Computer Staff)
Subject: Canadian upgrade works  1.3 to 2.0
Organization: University of Western Ontario
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 18:11:03 GMT

I sent my os/2 1.3 upgrade form to IBM in the mail a few weeks ago, and 
yesterday, I received v2 GA.  Already loaded and running...

PS:  Neat effect with  ctrl-alt-shift-o

mark@student.business.uwo.ca (Mark Bramwell, Computer Staff)
Western Business School  --  London, Ontario
From: rteasdal@polyslo.csc.calpoly.edu (Rusty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Which DOS?
Date: 17 Apr 92 03:22:51 GMT
Organization: Cal Poly State Univ,CSC Dept,San Luis Obispo,CA 93407


	I recall someone, who seemed both authoritative and credentialled,
posting a description of 2.0 which said that the version of DOS which was
included with and installed by it was IBM's licensed version of DOS 5.0.

	Well, I drifted into the campus computer store today, to find that
they have OS/2 2.0 running on a PS/2 Model 55SX (although no shrink wrapped 
copies have arrived). Playing around with it, I opened a DOS window and
typed "VER" out of curiosity.

	It promptly said "O/S 2 Version 2.0" or words to that effect.
I thought for a moment and then tried "EDIT". That was unrecognized, so I
tried "EDLIN". _That_ worked, to my horror. Is it true, as I was later
told, that this is actually the evil DOS 4.01? It certainly looks as
though it is. Will this be addressed by Corrective Service Diskettes at
some later time?


 
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From: juan@noyles.pha.pa.us (Juan J. E. T. Noyles)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2 and AMI Incompatability
Date: 9 Apr 92 23:12:50 GMT
Organization: Noyles Computer Works


In article <1992Apr8.150605.13468@eng.ufl.edu> jason@alpha.ee.ufl.edu writes:

>
>An important note to the notion of throwing windows away after one gets OS/2. 
>OS/2 windows support is limited to the windows 3.0 platform, not the faster and
>better windows 3.1!
>

Well, Windows 3.1 isn't important anyway.  Being faster and better than 3.0 is
a handicap, if you ask me...
---
Racists think the world is flat.  [Ralph Alves, 1992]	Juan@Noyles.pha.pa.us
From: jsvec@umaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu (Joe Svec)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: WHERE ARE THE TV ADS, WHERE ARE THE BANNERS IN STORES, WHERE IS THE MEDIA BLITZ???
Date: 7 Apr 92 03:27:05 GMT
Reply-To: jsvec@umaxa.weeg.uiowa.edu (Joe Svec)
Distribution: usa
Organization: U of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

Article 13922 of comp.os.os2.misc:
From: emartine@digi.lonestar.org (Edgar Martinez Martinez)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Help Requested
Date: 14 Apr 92 19:57:50 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: DSC Communications Corp, Plano, TX

In article <vbrjaal.rcain@netcom.com> rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain) writes:
>This week's PC Magazine presents OS/2's capabilities quite well and in a
>real ho-hum fashion but factually.  How they justify the opinions they
>express side by side with the facts they present is beyond me and I
>strongly believe indicates payola (so fucking sue me PC Mag.)
>
>Bob

 Did you read the side bar "OS/2 at a glance"? OS/2 bad point #4:
"No native aplications for OS/2 exist yet".

 Now, I could understand some misinformation on how to use an OS/2 feature,
but this was ridiculous. Maybe I don't understand what a "native application"
is.

 For a good review we are going to have to wait until GA is completely out.


Edgar Martinez                UTArlington Co-op program (Great!)
emartine@digi.lonestar.org    DSC Communications Corp.  Plano, TX
b645zju@utarlg.uta.edu        University of Texas at Arlington
"Where the 'struggle for life' is the way of life, barbarity reigns."
                                             Manuel Gonzalez Prada (1848-1918)
From: rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: IBM!!!  Please get it together!!
Date: 6 Apr 92 21:03:03 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest)

I think what has happened here is that IBM "put it in the can" at the end
of March but that only makes it generally available in theory.  The reality
of getting that "can" duplicated and boxed en-masse is a formidable one and
will take some production time.  Personally I would rather have this than
have had them put 6.304 in the can so that they could have truckloads of
boxed diskettes by April 1.  I was/am pissed at the possibility that
upgrades are of lower priority than retail but only have that on rumor so far.

Bob
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"There are some strings.  They're just not attached."
                                                    Victoria Roberts
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: ggg@kepler.unh.edu (Gregory G Greene)
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 Shrinkwrap at Frys!!!
Organization: University of New Hampshire  -  Durham, NH
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 1992 00:37:24 GMT

In article <vmzjhhg.dyoung@netcom.com> dyoung@netcom.com (David Young) writes:
>I was strolling through Fry's Electronics in Sunnyvale Ca. this evening and
>there on the shelf, right across from the Windoze 3.1 boxes, were several
>stacks of OS/2 2.0 "shrinkwrap".  Salesperson said that they'd been there a
>few hours, and they'd already sold about half of their shelf-stock.
>
>So, for those who said it's not "real" till you can go to the store and
>buy it off the shelf, go to it!!!
 
	I wish IBM would hurry up and send me my copy, I'm getting pretty
 impatient.  Probably its a blessing that its late though, since there's no
 SVGA drivers out there for my diamond speedstar +. :(

							G.Greene


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From: manne@Madrid.docs.uu.se (Magnus L|vkvist)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: GA problem solved
Summary: Workaround for problem with Adaptec 1740 and GA
Keywords: GA bug Adaptec
Date: 11 Apr 92 15:01:33 GMT
Organization: UDAC, Uppsala, Sweden

I have finally been able to boot GA by removing BASEDEV=AHA174X.ADD from
config.sys.

The installation program correctly detected my Adaptec 1740 controller and
installed AHA174X.ADD but it gave me a nasty C0000005 error.

So now I suppose I'm running GA with "generic SCSI" support instead of
real 1740 support. 

Special thanks to Mikael Wahlgren for the suggestion to remove AHA174X.ADD!

/Magnus