From: brown@chinchilla.ir.ucf.edu (Bill Brown)
Subject: OS/2 2.1
Organization: University of Central Florida -- Bilbo's Last Sanctuary...
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 02:18:40 GMT

I don't know if this has been posted here already, but I saw this in the 
INFO-IBMPC digest:


Date: 19 Nov 92 06:10:08 GMT
From: "Mohit K. Goyal" <goyal@utdallas.edu>
Subject: Brand new OS/2 2.01 beta information!!!!

PLEASE REMEMBER I DO NOT HAVE THE BETA and have no more info than what
you read.  Please do not email me.

I got this off of FIDOnet.  Its interesting.  We finally know the
answer to whether the next version of OS/2 will be called 2.1 or 2.01!
(unless Albert is wrong. :) )

From: ALBERT SHAN
To: ALL
Subject: OS/2 2.01 INTERNAL BETA

Just got the new 2.01 beta.  This release is meant for IBM internal
testing only.  It consists of 25 diskettes, with most of SP, and WinOS2
3.1 only (no WinOS2 3.0).  A number of files are post SP, this includes
all the .ADD, UHPFS.DLL, and OS2DASD.DMD.

System appears to be stable (for me, this is much better than SP, and
is almost as good as GA).  There are a number of install glitches, both
OS/2 side and WinOS2 side.  I did manage to get around them and is all
installed now.  There appears to be generic SVGA drivers (640x480,
800x600, 1024x768 all 256-color) for Tseng, ATI, Video 7, Paradise and
Trident.  Haven't try that out, as I got a hung during SVGA driver
install, and the system trashed.

Still running 8514/A, and it appears to be faster than SP and probably
close to GA speed.  32-bit GRE is here, and WPS folder operations is a
*lot* faster.  Objects appear almost instantly upon opening folders (I
have tried Templates and Productivity, they are fast).

The install dialogs are also changed so printer, CD-ROM, SCSI adapter,
can be setup with the same mouse/display/keyboard dialog.  CD-ROM
support includes:

Hitachi CDR-1650S, 1750S, 3650, 3750
IBM 3510, CD-ROM II
NEC CDR-35, 36, 37, 72, 73, 74, 77, 80, 82, 83, 84
Panasonic CR-501, LK-MC501S
Sony CDU-541, 561, 6211, 7211, 6111
Texel DM-3020, 3021, 3120, 5020, 5021, 5120, 3024, 5024
Toshiba 3201, 3301

There are some major new features in this beta.  However, I dont't have
any program to verify their functionality.  Here is a list:

o   OS/2 support for Windows** 3.1 applications
o   Pen Presentation Manager* hooks
o   MSCDEX support
o   Enhanced Format Utility
o   DMQS override
o   Access Control List (ACL) installed
o   PCMCIA support
o   Enhanced printer support
o   DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI) client
o   Security hooks
o   Enhanced CD-ROM support
o   Advanced power management (APM) (except
    mouse support)
o   Multimedia support (except software motion
    video)

Productivity apps appear to be unchanged (for now), and there appears
to be one additional applet to be included in 2.01 GA (can't said what
it is because a vendor is selling a similar product right now).

In additional, I can now start a DOS task from within WinOS2!  The DOS
task will be started from the OS/2 desktop as a background process.

All in all, I'm quite pleased with this release...  Now if they can fix
all the damn install bugs...<g>


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