HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: cnadler@vnet.ibm.com (Cliff Nadler)
Subject: Re: IBM screws U again
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 16:10:40 GMT
News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.15 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
Reply-To: cnadler@vnet.ibm.com (Cliff Nadler)
Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research

In <1992Dec14.194153.8726@ultb.isc.rit.edu> jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
>The Radius XGA-2 card will RETAIL (not "List") for $499 because IBM wants
>to bleed Radius for licensing fees. Thus, IBM screws over Radius, who 
>will lose a lot of sales (me, for one), the typical OS/2 customer who
>wants a faster system, and themselves all at once.

Please give some details as to where you got this information about the
license agreement - Was it from Radius or is it a guess based on their
price (no witch hunt intended here - if the cost is too high I want to
bring it to the attention of the appropriate management so they can re-think
the pricing)? From what I remember, the license fee for the XGA-2 should not
be that high (although I may misremember it).

>This is clearly a good example why Windows NT presents such a threat to
>the upper level OS market. Microsoft might just care about it's customers
>(unlike Big Blue) and take out the market right out from under them.

I hope that we can convince you that we (IBM) care about how you feel. If
we don't, I'll be out of a job 8-).

Cliff Nadler
IBM Federal Systems Company

Note: This post represents the views of the poster, not those of IBM or the
      IBM Federal Systems Company
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
From: ekarabin@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Eric B Karabin)
Subject: Re: EISA/MCA *or* Local Bus? Which is better for multitasking?
Organization: The Ohio State University
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 20:13:04 GMT


     So what do you think about a company pushing EISA/IDE???

If I intend to get an EISA machine, should I avoid IDE drives?
Are all the other options better?

                              Eric...
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: bross@spartan.ac.BrockU.CA (Brian J Ross)
Subject: Falcon 3.0 problems
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Brock University
X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4
Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 02:54:19 GMT

I have OS 2 installed with HPFS. I installed Falcon 3.1 
without problems.  However, when I try executing it, I get the
message "FATAL ERROR!!! CANNOT READ FILE! SOUND.BNK".
Is there a fix for this?  Or am I doomed to create a FAT 
partition now?


-- 
Brian Ross                          "Welcome to Canada." -- Twin Peaks Movie.
bross@sandcastle.cosc.brocku.ca
From: jbodnar@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (John Bodnar)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: DCF/2...
Date: 19 Dec 92 13:43:12 GMT
Reply-To: jbodnar@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (John Bodnar)
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

According to adhir@wam.umd.edu (Al Dhir):
>I am curious about DCF/2 for OS/2.  I DLed the dcf2show file from hobbes
>and watched the show, but it left me with a few unanswered questions.
>Will I be able to see a DCF2 drive from within native DOS?  Or will I
>be stuck only being able to see it from OS/2?  What kind of a performance
>hit can I expect on my system when using this product (I have a 486/50)?

I can speculate about the answer to one of your questions here because
I've used other real time disk compressors under DOS.

You shouldn't worry about a performance hit because most disk compressors
actually >improve< performance slightly.  How so?  Well, it takes less time
to load a compressed file into RAM, and the decompression takes place in
RAM where it occurs pretty quickly.  There is some decompression delay, but
I've installed several of these programs on 386SX laptops, and I don't
notice anything.  Your 486DX-50 should make these delays negligible.

Now, there will be a small delay when you do disk writes because
compression is naturally slower than decompression.  OS/2 caches disk
writes, however, so this hit will be less pronounced than it would be under
FAT systems without write caching (where I've done most testing).

The only other place where I could see a chance for delays would be in the
OS/2 API.  This is just pure guess work and probably wrong (which is good),
but I wonder if any overhead in the OS/2 API that DCF/2 must deal with
could factor into overall performance.  I suppose the people at
Proportional will have to answer this one.
-- 
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Internet: jbodnar@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu : Solitaire NT!  Heaven forbid, another
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
Subject: Re: OS/2 2.1?
Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1992 09:25:51 GMT

In article <62740@mimsy.umd.edu> pr@umiacs.umd.edu (Jesus M. Rodriguez) writes:
> 
> I am going to post a very stupid question but I have been reading a lot about
> OS/2 2.1.  Is OS/2 2.1 going to be another upgrade?  Will it be shrink wrapped?
> I am assuming that IBM hasn't changed their policy of FREE upgrades :-)

It will be a shrinkwrap update from what I hear. It may also involve an
upgrade charge from WinOS/2 3.0 to WinOS/2 3.1 - at Microsoft's insistence.

IBM can't give stuff away forever. They have been putting a lot into OS/2
development and as a happy - and much impressed - OS/2 user I don't mind
putting something back in to ensure a top-class effort in the future.
 
Steve
 


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From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Good OS/2 news ........
Date: 17 Dec 92 18:32:34 GMT
Reply-To: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
NNTP-Posting-Host: slc12.ins.cwru.edu


In a previous article, haen@veces.stgt.sub.org (Herbert Neugebauer) says:

>In article <1gkrggINN9ie@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell) writes:
>>
>>The 12/14/92 pc had several bits of good news for os/2 2.0.
>>
>>The first is that os/2 2.1 is close to being finished and that it will
>>support windows enhanced mode applications under winos2.
>                 ^^^^^^^^
>                 
>Are your sure about that, someone said previously, that
>this will not be supported, only standard mode.

While IBM has not announced 386 enhanced mode support, from where I'm
sitting, it looks like they are trying hard to include it.

I gather there are a lot of non-disclosure agreements concerning the
latest beta.

Maybe IBM will have a nice suprise for everyone.
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: samiam@netcom.com (Scott Moore)
Subject: Win 3.1 upgrade and GA+SP
Summary: folders lockup after win 3.1 installation under GA+SP
Keywords: win31 windows os/2
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 22:17:22 GMT

Anyone get this one ? After installation of the win 3.1 upgrade, all my desktop
folders are "locked", as in they just won't open. Program icons still work ok.
Tried both the left button open and right mouse->open. Weird.
Was even able to run the new win 3.1, by executing it directly from an os/2
shell window.
Here we go with another from scratch installation, I beleive I may hold the
standing record at 30+ times !

                                             [sam]
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: jvert@microsoft.com (John Vert)
Subject: Re: OS/2 Boot Manager and NT incompatibility; Read on! 
Date: 14 Dec 92 19:22:26 GMT
Organization: Microsoft Corporation

In article <1992Dec14.034749.11780@cdf.toronto.edu> g1nickut@cdf.toronto.edu (Nick Zahariadis) writes:
>In article <1992Dec13.225515.9365@ichips.intel.com> jburns@pdxgp1 (John Justin Burns Jr.) writes:
>>In article <sal8.246.724201910@po.cwru.edu> sal8@po.cwru.edu (Steve Luzynski) writes:
>>>
>>>The NT beta has code included that makes it absolutely refuse to install if 
>>>it detects the OS/2 boot manager on your hard drive. Pretty rude of MS if 
>>>you ask me (OS/2 does no such check for NT).
>>>
>>Does NT have a boot manager or something like it?
>>
>>I have just been given an article which describes how to install NT using
>>the OS/2 boot manager (Douglas Hamilton, Windows Magazine, OCT. 92).  I
>>have not tryed the procedure.  It is very specific and the biggest catch
>>for me is that NT must be the first thing put on the disk, something I can
>>not tolerate (Boot Manager must be first, then os/2 v2 on E:).  NT must be
>>put on C: (OK with me).  I assume this article is for the beta version just
>>previous to the one now out.
>>
>>OK, so it will not install with the boot manager.  Another post on this 
>>news group mentioned that there is a bit in the boot record that may be toggled
>>so that the boot manager would not be visible during NT installation.
>>Would this work? 
>
> Yes, I've mentioned it and it is possible. There are ways of bypassing
> checks like this that install programs make (and shouldn't really make, if
> the reason is other than incompatibility).
>

> Also note, that sneaky little checks like that don't serve any purpose
> other than marketing strategies (or lack thereof). 

[ giant anti-MS polemic deleted ]

The reason that the NT Beta will not install with Boot Manager is NOT
because Microsoft hates IBM, or because Microsoft wants to make your life
miserable, or any other shadowy Microsoft conspiracy.  The reason is
that Boot Manager plays games with the partition table.  Notably, the
partition that NTLDR gets started from is no longer marked ACTIVE.  
Instead, the Boot Manager partition is marked ACTIVE.  Whether or not
you think IBM has broken the "rules" of the MBR and partition table,
the fact is that without a lot of amazing gymnastics (like Doug Hamilton
has outlined elsewhere) you cannot get Boot Manager and NTLDR to agree 
on what partition should be marked ACTIVE.

Since installation of NT over Boot Manager will likely result in either
an unbootable NT or an unbootable OS/2, Windows NT Setup does its best
to prevent this.  You may consider this "sneaky" or "underhanded" if
you like.  But the truth is that this configuration is not supported
for a REASON that has nothing to do with marketing.
     jvert@microsoft.com  (speaking, of course, for myself)

Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: dabl2@nlm.nih.gov (Don A.B. Lindbergh)
Subject: Re: OS/2 Multimedia Support for Tandy Sensation!?
Organization: National Library of Medicine
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 92 15:20:31 GMT

In article <1992Dec16.012614.17098@netcom.com> feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel) writes:
>sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
>
>>In article <1992Dec13.053913.23662@netcom.com> feustel@netcom.com (David Feustel) writes:
>>>I just got (tonight) a Tandy Sensation! multimedia machine and I'm
>>>wondering whether os/2 and the IBM multimedia support will run on it.
>
>>Can you describe the system, component by component?
>
..stuff deleted...

>midi, digital audio (16 bit) with voice synthesis

sorry to nitpick, but the acronym 'midi' is becoming convoluted these days.
Briefly, Roland's MPU-401 *was* a defacto 'midi' standard, now Creative Labs
and Mediavision use a slightly different 'standard' (don't even know if
THEY are compatible with each other...) which I think is based on a motorola
chip of some kind.  Anyway, to make a short question monotonous, do you know
if the midi is MPU-401 or another 'standard'.  I'm trying to get an idea of
where things are going for MPU-401.  Thanks for any additional info.

--Don Lindbergh
dabl2@lhc.nlm.nih.gov
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From: kitchin@lf.hp.com (Bruce Kitchin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Future of OS/2 and IBM????????????
Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
Date: 16 Dec 1992 15:46:57 GMT
Organization: Hewlett Packard Santa Clara Site
NNTP-Posting-Host: eden.avo.hp.com
X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1.2 PL7]

William Owen Carlson (woc8r@ruby.cs.Virginia.EDU) wrote:
: In article <1992Dec15.210437.934@gn.ecn.purdue.edu> ashwath@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Ashwath Ram) writes:
: >	Hi, netters just a thought. IBM doesn't seem to be doing so hot
: >financially they just said they are going to be laying off 25,000
: >more people next year this after 40,000 have already been allocated
: >to be laid off this year. 
: 
: Please be a little more precise.  IBM has NEVER laid anyone off.  Truthfully,

Unfortunately, the news reports I heard Tuesday indicated that *layoffs*
are possible for the first time in IBM history.  I certainly hope they
will be able avoid that extreme.  I also hope, selfishly, that OS/2 is
not one of the areas affected.  From all I hear it seems like mainframes
is what is hurting.  This does not come as a great surprise to many of us.
The mainframe still has its place but the demand for them has grown less
with the decentralization that PC's and Workstations have enabled.
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: t2262cg@cd1.LRZ-Muenchen.DE (Martin Rast)
Subject: Re: Another OS/2 Bug?
Organization: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum, Muenchen (Germany)
Distribution: lrz
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 09:38:30 GMT

harvey@waikato.ac.nz writes:

>3 drives all HPFS
>...
>using XTGOLD 2.5 select a directory type alt P (for prune) type PRUNE
>Trap 000D everytime.
>This does not happen with FAT disks and not with del directories remmed out

Seems to be a bug in XTGOLD. Using an uninitialized or invalid pointer causes
(e.g.) a Trap D. It's not necessary that there's a problem under DOS, too.

|   Martin Rast                                                                |
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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: g1nickut@cdf.toronto.edu (Nick Zahariadis)
Subject: Re: Future of OS/2 and IBM????????????
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Disciplines Facility
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 17:30:02 GMT

In article <1992Dec18.160725.8470@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca> hwhalen@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Hugh Whalen) writes:
>In article <1992Dec18.035926.1900@sequent.com> furballs@sequent.com (Paul Penrod) writes:

 [whole article deleted]

 Undoubtedly an interesting discussion as it is, IBM stocks discussions
 do not belong here. Make sure you post only to comp.os.os2.advocacy, i.e.
 check your Newsgroups line before posting.

 I hate to point it out, but it is getting out of hand here in
 comp.os.os2.misc.

 All flames will go to /dev/null.

 Nick.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,alt.cd-rom
From: cjones@nyx.cs.du.edu (Charles J. Jones)
Subject: CD-ROM, OS/2 and TMC-850MEX controller
X-Disclaimer: Nyx is a public access Unix system run by the University
	of Denver for the Denver community.  The University has neither
	control over nor responsibility for the opinions of users.
Organization: Nyx, Public Access Unix at U. of Denver Math/CS dept.
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 92 15:55:16 GMT

Hi!

I just used the offer that comes with the OS/2 PDK to purchase a Toshiba
XM-3301 CD-ROM drive and adapter.  The adapter that came was the Future Domain
TMC-850MEX ISA bus SCSI adapter.  I understood that OS/2 would work with
Future Domain BUT, at least with the drivers I have, it doesn't.  I get
the message "SCSI-DD not found" when cdrom.sys tries to load.  So, do
I need to get other drivers?  If so where can they be found?  Maybe I need
to use a different switch to the base scsi driver?  Maybe I'm screwed because
this adapter is not nativly supported yet at all?  I can use the disk just
fine is a DOS session, but I need to have it available in an OS/2 session. 
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Charles
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From: shyguy@ocf.berkeley.edu (David S. Shy)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Mix of 3-chip and 9-chip simms with OS/2
Date: 16 Dec 1992 03:05:18 GMT
Organization: U.C. Berkeley Open Computing Facility
NNTP-Posting-Host: avalanche.berkeley.edu

In article <L7VqVB5w165w@qed.cts.com> pyrite@qed.cts.com (Sean Camanyag) writes:
>With the Service Pack installed, I get a lot of trap errors, around 8-10,
>sometimes more, per day.  People at IBM NSC BBS have put the blame on my mix
>of 4 3-chip 1mb simms, and 4 9-chip 1mb simms.  This is UNACCEPTABLE,

Hummm... fascinating... I don't have a big problem w/ trap errors... if
i do, it's typically because i am trying out untested software or i was
playing around with some stuff on my hd.  i've only had about 2 "real"
trap errors since i've installed the sp.

my setup is 12 megs of ram (4 1meg 9 chips 70ns simms (don't know brand)
and 8 1 meg 3 chip 70 ns simms (goldstar))  i remember way back
when trap error problems were numerious, it was typically becasue 
people were not putting the same kind of simms in the same bank.  (i
kept all the 9's in one bank and all the 3's in the rest)  so you
might want to check for that.

also, if you are mixing different speed simms, that may be your 
problem (although some people have not experienced any problems
under this setup...)

oh, btw:  my my m-b is a 486dx/33 + ami bios


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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: bill@unixland.natick.ma.us (Bill Heiser)
Subject: fastest video?
Organization: Unixland Public Access Unix  (508) 655-3848
Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 00:12:27 GMT

Without going to the point of spending $500 for some sort of 
intelligent video card, that is, sticking with SVGA, what is the
best card to use with OS/2?  I'm using an NEC Multisync II right
now, but will soon bu using an NEC Multisync 4DS.

Thanks in advance.

Bill

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Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
From: rm3@ornl.gov (MCBROOM R C)
Subject: Re: Growing os2sys.ini file
Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 1992 17:33:31 GMT

In article <4668@copper.Denver.Colorado.EDU> rvaniwaa@copper.denver.colorado.edu (Ronald J. Vaniwaarden) writes:
>I have to admit that I passed by all of these messages about the growing
>ini files as mine were always sitting at 60k and 150k for os2.ini and
>os2sys.ini respectively.  I recently noticed that I was running out of HD
>space and checked these files.  The results: 165653 and 1010849 bytes
>respectively.  I admit that this is not a huge problem since cpyini shrunk
>them down to pre-CSD size but it is still quite annoying.  I hope that this
>is fixed with the next upgrade (2.1ish)
>
Some others reported various things getting changed in this process.  
Particularly program icons being changed to data.  I've had a similar instance
although I can't swear that cpyini was responsible.  My unzip program somehow
became associated as a datafile for Mathcad.  The only way I found to 
straighten things out was to use native dos tomove unzip.exe to a floppy
boot OS/2 from a floppy run chkdsk /f to clear the EA's reboot and bring unzip
back.  The proper way to modify the associations still escapes me even after
reading a few postings and the "guide".

One thing I can definitely trace to cpyini is that the menu heading for the 
OS/2 editor now has a special character in it that wasn't there before.

I've tried inimaint as well but it always dies when I tell it to do a copy.
From: jerome.yuzyk@freddy.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Jerome Yuzyk) 
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: OS/2 AND LINUX
Date: 18 Dec 92 01:18:00 GMT
Reply-To: jerome.yuzyk@freddy.ersys.edmonton.ab.ca (Jerome Yuzyk) 
Distribution: world
Organization: Freddy's Place BBS - Edmonton, AB - 403-456-4241

I will be getting two new 500M SCSI drives over Xmas (Santa = me) and will be
re-installing OS/2 with Boot Manager and a bunch of partitions (to be named
later).  BUT, I also want to make room/allowance for Linux someday.  My
questions are:

- where's some reading material about doing this?

- Should all my operating systems (OS/2,native DOS, Linux) be on one of the
  drives, or should I put Linux on drive 2 (or can I)?

- can I just leave one biggish partition unformatted and drop Linux in when
  I'm ready?

Thanks in advance

cross-posted to comp.os.linux

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From: ochealth@unixg.ubc.ca (ochealth)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Are PS/2 floppy drives better under OS/2?
Date: 13 Dec 1992 09:20:16 GMT
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
NNTP-Posting-Host: unixg.ubc.ca

In article <1992Dec12.221015.12402@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
>
>Rumor has it that the next group of PS/2s will have OS/2-aware (and
>controlled) autoejecting 2.88 MB floppy drives.  There will still be
>manual eject button.  Just thought I'd throw in a little tidbit here.
>
Cooool.

Once of nicest parts about formatting floppies on a Sun, that you can
tell it to eject when done, so you know when to put the next disk in.

(btw, maybe you can mention to IBM to add a /beep option to format.exe,
so you know when it's finished. one of the drawbacks of having such 
excellent multitasking, is that you forget to check the window to
see if it's done formatting)


>-- 
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From: altman@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Jeff Altman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: "Invalid internal file indentifier" message
Date: 17 Dec 92 05:59:19 GMT
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook


I just installed the Service Pack and then upgraded
the video drivers to XGA Hires.  Now the machine
won't boot OS/2 and upon booting off of a floppy
to access the HPFS partition I get the message
"Invalid internal file indentifier"

CHKDSK /F has no effect.  It doesn't think there
is anything wrong.

However, I can't 'dir' 'del' 'copy' or anything
else.  The partitiion is there but not there.

What does this message mean and how do I fix it?

Please help.

Thanks in advance.

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