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From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Subject: Cheap Memory For OS/2 Upgrades
Reply-To: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 92 17:36:18 GMT




Since many people are considering upgrading the memory in their computers
in order to fully use OS/2 2.0, I have some pricing info that may be helpful.
The prices are for retail with no minimum purchase.  Lower resale prices are 
available.


Mega Micro   phone:619-573-0040    %3 credit card surcharge

  1x3 simms 70ns - $29.50
  1x9 simms 70ns - $35.00
  1x9 simms 60ns - $36.00
  4x9 simms 70ns - $122.00

  I have used their 1x3 simms with os/2 2.0 in a leading edge computer.


I.C. Exchange   phone:213-962-4830   %3 credit card surcharge

  1x3 simms 70ns - $32.50
  1x9 simms 70ns - $34.00
  1x9 simms 60ns - $35.00
  4x9 simms 70ns - $122.00


Disclaimer: I have no connection with either company besides ordering
memory from them from time to time.
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From: bill.dehaan@rose.uucp (bill dehaan)
Subject: TV advertising
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 10:58:25 GMT
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Date Entered: 04-11-92 19:19
In message <8APR92.23551256@skyfox.usask.ca>, Darryl Friesen writes:

DF>Instead of the explosion, one user presses Ctrl-Alt-Del
DF>and reboots the machine (running Windows). The other user
DF>looks at him with a smug grin, presses Ctrl-Alt-Del and
DF>simply shuts down that application.  We realize here that
DF>he was running the Windows App under OS/2!

Anyone trying to reproduce this scenario is in for a bit of a  surprise.
Pressing <Ctrl-Alt-Del>  under OS/2  *will* reboot  the system.  To shut
down the offending Window (or DOS, or OS/2) application, you have to  go
to the system pulldown, and select Close.

The scenario  you described  _would_ work.  But unfortunately,  it would
work with Windows 3.1, rather than OS/2. Ah, well.

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From: rcain@netcom.com (Robert Cain)
Subject: Re: "EA DATA.SF" ?
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 92 20:32:37 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

traub@rtf.bt.co.uk (Michael Traub) writes:
: 
: I could be totally wrong here but I think EA DATA holds cluster information.
: This means that it doesn't matter what the file is called, if you start
: moving things around it screws up.
: 

I don't think you are wrong here but it has been beaten to death with no
definitive answer yet.  Timothy says that if it gets screwed up, CHKDSK /F
from installation will rebuild a proper "EA DATA. SF" from filename info.
I am awaiting GA to attempt to validate this.
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From: jnpotts@iastate.edu (James N. Potts)
Subject: Thanks IBM (or IBM visits Iowa State...NOT!!!)
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames IA
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 17:00:54 GMT

I must admit that IBM has some interesting ideas.  Such as planning an OUTDOOR
OS/2 roll-out in Iowa in early April.  So when IBM heard that we got SNOW last
night (this IS Iowa--such things aren't unheard of), they decided to cancel the
entire event.  Not to move it inside, or to come back later, but to just
completely cancel.

Thanks, IBM.

James Potts
            (who's still interested in OS/2 even if he thinks that IBM event
               planning needs to take a course in Midwestern Meteorology)
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From: antkasx@gsusgi2.gsu.edu (Ken A. Sturrock)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: All GUIs are not alike
Date: 10 Apr 92 04:50:23 GMT
Organization: Georgia State University

byer@adobe.com (Scott Byer) writes:


>I'd put OS/2 & Motif very near each other somewhere in the
>middle. 

Ah, but which "Motif"? The collection of file/icon managers is not yet terribly 
standard. For example, Motif on a Silicon Graphics is fabulous, on an Intergraph
Clipper it sucks...must be those PostScript fonts on the SGI ;).

Actually wasn't Motif derived from the same Presentation Manager
specifications as Windows 3.0. 

I have to agree with you about NeXTStep and OpenLook though. Also, as a 
"Macintosh Person" I have to say that I hope the others will age as gracefully
as the Finder has.

Eagerly awaiting my OS/2 v2 upgrade....

							-ks
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From: tholen@galileo.ifa.hawaii.edu (Dave Tholen)
Subject: Re: Diskless Workstations
Organization: University of Hawaii
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 1992 14:39:52 GMT

Guy Zrachya writes:

>  What's seamless windows?

Seamless windows means you can run a Windows application alongside a
Presentation Manager application on the same screen group.  Prior to
the availability of seamless windows, Windows applications had to be
run in their own separate screen group.

By the way, someone at Microsoft (was it Steve Ballmer?) went on record
to say that seamless windows could not be done.  Surprise!
From: dclayton@bcarh692.bnr.ca (Don Clayton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Not all press coverage has been bad...
Date: 17 Apr 92 20:01:44 GMT
Article-I.D.: bnr.1992Apr17.200144.20026
Distribution: na
Organization: Bell Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada

In article <1992Apr17.005112.28909@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> spr@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Sebastian P Ruta) writes:
>It scares me when I see this fanaticism about.....an operating system?

You havn't read the NeXT, Amiga or UNIX news groups have you?

Don
BNR has better things to do then tell me what to say on Internet,
  so I hardly think these are their views.
"Pick up the receiver, I'll make you a believer." - Depeche Mode
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From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Subject: ------- Cheap Memory for OS/2 ----------
Reply-To: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, (USA)
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 92 19:23:43 GMT


I seem to have lost the first posting of this.
Sorry if this ends up being a repeat.

Repost:
-------------------------------------

Since many people are considering upgrading the memory in their computers
in order to fully use OS/2 2.0, I have some pricing info that may be helpful.
The prices are for retail with no minimum purchase.  Lower resale prices are 
available.


Mega Micro   phone:619-573-0040    %3 credit card surcharge

  1x3 simms 70ns - $29.50
  1x9 simms 70ns - $35.00
  1x9 simms 60ns - $36.00
  4x9 simms 70ns - $122.00

  I have used their 1x3 simms with os/2 2.0 in a leading edge computer.


I.C. Exchange   phone:213-962-4830   %3 credit card surcharge

  1x3 simms 70ns - $32.50
  1x9 simms 70ns - $34.00
  1x9 simms 60ns - $35.00
  4x9 simms 70ns - $122.00


Disclaimer: I have no connection with either company besides ordering
memory from them from time to time.
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From: bill.dehaan@rose.uucp (bill dehaan)
Subject: Re: i don't like it!!
Organization: Rose Media Inc, Toronto, Ontario.
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 1992 10:58:36 GMT
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Date Entered: 04-12-92 00:20
Bradley Grigor writes:

BG>I have seen OS/2 2.0 GA and I'm not impressed.  How can I get rid
BG>of the Workplace Shell??  I _really_ don't like it.  Does OS/2
BG>2.0 include the original 1.3 PMSHELL somewhere?  As much as I
BG>hate to say it, Windows 3 (and OS/2 1.3 for that matter) is
BG>aesthetically much nicer and a darn site easier to use.  This is
BG>going to take A LOT of getting used to.

Step 1 - boot from install disk.

Step 2 - put in disk 1, press <ESC> when "Press Enter to Continue"
         prompt appears. This will give you a command prompt.

Step 3 - go to the \OS2 directory.

Step 4 - back up OS2.INI and OS2SYS.INI to floppy (just in case)

Step 5 - either:
            a) "makeini os2_13.rc" to install OS/2 1.3 like shell, or
            b) "makeini win_30.rc" to install Windows 3-ish shell.

Step 6 - reboot. The system will take 5 to 10 minutes to reorient
         itself, this is normal. When the screen appears, you will have
         your 1.3 (or Windows) screen back.

You will also have an icon for the desktop shell. You can run one  under
the other, since the WPS is in  fact always running. If you want to  get
REALLY cute, you could have all three running at the same time, but this
is not for the timid.

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From: rafetmad@cheshire.oxy.edu (David R. Giller)
Subject: Re: preemptive multi-tasking
Organization: Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA 90041 USA.
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 03:27:21 GMT

In article <1992Apr15.030852.24256@cheshire.oxy.edu> rafetmad@cheshire.oxy.edu (David R. Giller) writes:
[...]
>To deal with the term 'time-sliced', it is usually used as a synonym to
>pre-emptive, because in pre-emptive multitasking, the OS allocates a
>designated (not necessarily fixed) slice of time for the application
>to run, and it interrupts the application when its time is up.  It must
>maintain a context of registers and stack, because the application
>can't know when it is being pre-emptive, and the system can't corrupt
>the stack.  In cooperative multitasking, the application knows exactly
>when it is going to be pre-emptive, since it usually uses a function
         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>call to yeild the processor.  Registers aren't preserved across function
>calls, and the stack can be marked so that it can be easily returned to
>its pre-yeild state.

Sorry, this should read "its quantum is up".

-Dave
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From: brooke@cco.caltech.edu (Brooke Paul Anderson)
Subject: Re: OS/2 functionality questions
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1992 04:26:02 GMT

Howdy.  I'm not an expert on OS/2 networking, but I can answer some
of your questions.  (1) OS/2 is indeed multitasking -- real preemptive
multitasking, not the crap Windows and Macs try to pass of as
multitasking.  (2) OS/2 itself is not multiuser, although you can
get a third party product (Cytrix) that makes OS/2 multiuser.
I haven't used Cytrix, but you can ask others on this newsgroup about
it.  (3 and 4)  TCP/IP is available for OS/2, which includes, I think,
NFS, RFS, FTP, etc.  Also, OS/2 works with Novell networks and several
others.  I am a UNIX guy, so I don't know anything about networking
other than normal UNIX-type ethernet, which OS/2 supports with the
tcp/ip package.  I'm not sure about the cost of this package, maybe
about $200 extra.  (5)  Xwindows is available for OS/2.  Again, not
sure, but cost is perhaps about $150-$200.  tcp/ip and Xwindows are
available from IBM, so you can call 1-800-3-ibm-os2 and see if they
know about pricing.  (6)  Not sure about realtime aspects of OS/2.
(7) see comment on tcp/ip and Cytrix. (8) Libraries are not supplied
with OS/2 -- that would come with the compiler you buy or with the
IBM software development kit. (9) As far as I know, OS/2 is not
downloadable via ethernet.  (10)  Security would depend on what Cytrix
implements.

Hope this helps.
From: terryh@cae.wisc.edu (Terry Henning)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Diamond Stealth drivers for OS/2?
Date: 13 Apr 92 23:04:36 GMT
Article-I.D.: doug.1992Apr13.180436.3261
Organization: College of Engineering, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
Originator: terryh@sun-18.cae.wisc.edu

Hi,

Someone posted an article a while back that said that Diamond would not be
producing drivers for OS/2 2.0 for their Stealth board.  Is this true?  I
want to get OS/2 2.0, but I really don't want to run it on a $260 (slow) VGA
board.  The Stealth is really fast as a SVGA board, but the regular VGA has
a little to be desired.  If Diamond is not going to support their board for
OS/2, is it possible to run a driver from another S3 based graphics board?

Just my $.02 here - I find the performance of the most recent Stealth drivers
for windows 3.0 excellent, but very buggy.  I've had to reboot as often as
three times in about five minutes.  If they ever decide to support OS/2 I hope
that they do a better job.


Thanks,
Terry

terryh@cae.wisc.edu
From: gt0040a@prism.gatech.EDU (Thomas Michael Sorensen)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: GA's applets
Date: 7 Apr 92 00:31:38 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

In <1992Apr6.025217.4555@cbnewsm.cb.att.com> heiland@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (david.j.heiland) writes:

>I've read about the betas' applets suggest that they aren't very good
>(e.g., OS/2's solitaire isn't all that appealing).  I'm curious as to
>what people think of GA's applets.  

They're OK, I like Solitaire quite well in fact- its ending isn't as nice as
Windows, but the cards resize when you resize the window, there are a variety
of different ways to play, and you can even cheat! <g>.

The Icon editor works, but could be better. I haven't really used many of
the others.

>Can the applets be removed easily (e.g., is there any kind of menu of 
>individual applets, DOS, Windows, etc. that allows you to selectively 

Yes, the selective install. Install only what you want during install. If
you decide that you actually DID want it later then just run selective
install again (its in one of the sub-folders).
          Tom Sorensen

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From: itreleav@fraser.sfu.ca (Ian Anthony Treleaven)
Subject: Re: OK, does *ANYONE* have OS/2 2.0 GA?
Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1992 04:09:37 GMT

In article <1992Apr12.031859.18070@ra.msstate.edu>
 jtq1@ra.msstate.edu (Jim Quinlan) writes:

>I've also seen Windows 3.1 beta running, and it is much faster and
>more stable than 3.0.. (yes, I do run 3.0 at the moment).. IBM should
>be concerned that Windows 3.0 users will opt for 3.1 instead of switching 
>over to OS/2 2.0..  Not to flame the 3.0/3.1 users, but have you looked at 
>comp.windows.ms or any of the windows news groups?  Many of them are
>having problems (that have documented solutions) upgrading to Windows 3.1..
>How can they be expected to switch over to OS/2??  Granted OS/2 2.0 is 
>compatible with DOS/Windows, it's still an entire operating system and that
>has many of them mystified.  The Windows+OS/2 bashing is proof of that.

I haven't seen Windows 3.1 running yet, but if it is faster, then it will
be faster under OS/2 as well, except in areas where the new disk I/O code
affects it.  But then disk I/O is much faster and more intelligent under
OS/2 anyway.  While you are telling all your friends about OS/2, ask the
Windows users how often they have to play with their config.sys and
autoexec.bat files.  I have helped a number of people get their systems up
and running with Windows 3.0, and it takes quite a while to fiddle with      
everything, only to have it blow up a week later.  While I was running
native Windows 3.0, I never had any problems with my setup, but then I
have a pretty good idea of what not to do :-)  The point is that with OS/2,
you just install it and you're set.  Use HPFS and you don't have to play with
disk optimizers either.

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From: Andrew Bros <bros@convex.COM>
Subject: Re: GA directory move bug?
Originator: bros@mikey.convex.com
Reply-To: bros@convex.COM (Andrew Bros)
Organization: Convex Computer Corporation, Richardson, TX
Distribution: usa
Date: Thu, 16 Apr 1992 14:02:11 GMT
X-Disclaimer: This message was written by a user at CONVEX Computer
              Corp. The opinions expressed are those of the user and
              not necessarily those of CONVEX.

In article <1992Apr15.235831.17164@morrow.stanford.edu> GD.SAR@forsythe.stanford.edu (Sandy Rockowitz) writes:
>In article <1992Apr10.195842.24079@muddcs.claremont.edu>,
>jokim@jarthur.claremont.edu (John H. Kim) writes:
>>
>>Is it possible to take the file manager from 1.3 and add it as an
>>OS/2 app to 2.0?  Which files are needed?
>
>I'm running the 1.3 file manager under 2.0, which like many others I
>find much easier to use.  (What a depressing comment:  it's hardly a
>gem of a file manager.)
>

  If you're looking for a good file manager, I'd recommend trying out
Directory Manager/PM by QB Software (shareware, $39.95).  I've tried
it under v1.3, and like it a lot better than the 1.3 file manager.
I'm going to make sure it runs under 2.0 before I register, though.

  It's available on hobbes.nmsu.edu 128.123.35.151 in /pub/os2/diskutils:
dirman0101c.zoo   70955  A replacement for File Manager (PM)
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From: ian@vnet.ibm.com (Ian Stirling)
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 92 12:14:28 BST
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: TDW and OS/2
Reply-To: ian@vnet.ibm.com
Organization: IBM UK Laboratories Ltd, Hursley, England
Disclaimer: This posting represents the poster's views, not those of IBM
News-Software: UReply 3.0

In <s3cnsINN8or@agate.berkeley.edu> Derek Suzuki writes:
>   Can anyone tell me whether Turbo Debugger for Windows works under
>GA?  I do still need to develop for Windows (at least until I can afford
>BC++ for OS/2).
>
>Derek Suzuki
>drkszk@ocf.berkeley.edu
>
From the OS/2 post install ReadMe file

o   Turbo Debugger for Windows (Windows)

    -   Run the program in a WIN-OS/2 full-screen
        session.
    -   The screen is temporarily corrupted when
        this program is called from Turbo C++.
        The screen is restored on the first
        repaint (a repaint can be forced by
        clicking the mouse on several different
        windows).

By the way after about 17.30 (UK time) today I am an vacation until a
week on Tuesday.  I will honour all requests for the readme file I
receive today.  I will eventually honour all requests I receive but it
may not be until I return to work.  If I fall out with the wife over
Easter I may be back at work earlier than planned !!!!

Cheers,
Ian Stirling                      Internet: ian@vnet.ibm.com
CICS/ESA Systems Facilities         Bitnet: ian at vnet
IBM UK Labs Ltd, Hursley, England IBMIPnet: ian@stirling.hursley.ibm.com

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From: pathak@mitre.org (Heeren Pathak)
Subject: Re: sexy guis?
Organization: Mitre Corporation
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 1992 14:51:32 GMT

In article <1992Apr1.1480.10779@dosgate>, "michael daly" <michael.daly@canrem.com> writes:
> 
> PD>1)  The OS/2 icons are fairly boring when compared to equivalent ones
> PD>    in Windows.  Mind, they aren't ugly, but they don't have the same
> PD>    pizazz.
> 
> Ya, but OS/2 can have animated icons.  I've never seen animated Windows
> icons - do such exist?
> 

Animated icons for windows do exist and they are relatively easy to write.


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From: furnish@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Geoffrey Furnish)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: My idea for OS/2 Advertisment...
Summary: funny
Keywords: os2 ms ad
Date: 16 Apr 92 18:46:59 GMT
Organization: The University of Texas at Austin, Austin TX

Well, I've read some interesting advertisment proposals here, and now I
have a suggestion of my own.

Last weeks PC Week review of OS/2 stated that it "beat the pants off
Windows."  What a great quote.  Looks like the making of a great ad...

Two page full color spread.  Lot's of guys standing in a row with horn
rim glasses and wearing T-shirts that say "Microsoft Windows".  All of
them in multi color Jockey briefs, with their pants around their ankles.

Caption at the bottom of the page:  Care to join them?  Or would you rather
use OS/2?

or some such.

Geoff Furnish
furnish@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu
From: altman@sbpmt.cs.sunysb.edu (Jeff Altman)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Microsoft wins
Date: 6 Apr 92 18:33:28 GMT
Article-I.D.: sbcs.1992Apr6.183328.24589
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook

In article <6APR199200454278@venus.tamu.edu> tcf9033@venus.tamu.edu (FREY, TONY C) writes:
>
> Anyone hear about Microsoft signing -> 85 <- PC manufactures to bundle
>Windoze 3.1 with their machines?  Includes 8 of the ten top sellers too,
>(i.e. Dell, Gateway, Zeos, etc.).  This sounds like another one of those
>"I wish we would have thought of that" sayings from IBM.  I felt this
>way when I owned my Amiga, kinda like you're doomed by fate to fail.. Come
>on IBM - GET WITH IT!!!!! 

Actually I would be very surprised if these vendors did not bundle Win 3.1
with their systems.  They were given a very attractive offer by MS, and to
bundle both Win 3.1 and OS/2 2.0 would just cost the companies extra.  They
pay for the Win 3.1 regardless of whether they ship every machine with it.

What IBM should do is make sure that these same companies can offer to ship
the OS/2 2.0 Upgrade from Windows installed on the machines as Dual Boot or
with Boot Manager (customer preference.)  This way customers will still have
the relatively cheap option of trying out OS/2 2.0 for the additional $49 cost
without any extra effort.

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From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: HPFS and Memory
Date: 10 Apr 92 20:40:11 GMT
Reply-To: sip1@midway.uchicago.edu
Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago

In article <54215@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt6493c@prism.gatech.EDU (gt6493c FLUHR,ERIC J) writes:
>So running HPFS with only 6MB isn't a good idea?

It's probably OK in that situation.  The 6 MB level is just about
where HPFS gets practical.  Below 6 MB, don't use HPFS.  Above 6 MB,
go ahead and use it if you want to.  At 6 MB you're right on the line,
I'd say.

So, yes, give it a try.
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