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echo: os2_z3
to: Colin Wheat
from: Bill Grimsley
date: 1996-12-02 07:17:00
subject: warpv3

Colin, at 08:07 on Dec 01 1996, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

CW>> Use Alt-F2 to display each device driver as it loads.

BG> Good advice, but with the faster Pentiums or 6x86s, one has 
BG> to awfully quick with the Alt-F2 combination, as the OS/2 
BG> logo only stays on-screen for just a matter of milliseconds.  
BG> Sure is good exercise for one's reflexes though.  :)

CW> :). Nothing like a floppy boot that's for sure. 

Agreed.

CW> Not really only milliseconds though, at least not on my motherboards 
CW> and INTEL cpu's. I've just been running WARP V4 on a 
CW> PENTIUM-200, and a PENTIUM-PRO-200, both displayed the OS/2 
CW> logo bit for the usual second or two.

Just rebooted and timed mine, and it definitely only stays there for just
under a second (6x86 P166+), which is quite a bit faster than when I was
running 486 class CPUs...

Regards, Bill

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