It's 01 Mar 97  00:15:06,
We'll return to Stephane Bessette and Stephen Haffly's
discussion of Win95 under os/2 ???
 SB> that I 'complete the hows', and so I hope I did.  If you were only
 SB> wondering about how to reactivate boot manager, then you only need to
 SB> use fdisk and activate the partition.  You could do it from Win95, or
 SB> use the two OS/2 installation floppies, and exit the installation.  At
 SB> the prompt, type fdisk.
That's the impression I was under too.  A simple 'fdisk -> set active
partition should do the trick. :-)  Then put Win 95 under the boot menu.
:-)
 SB> Also, I've since installed Win95 on my own computer;  I'm
 SB> tired of friends calling me about their Win95 problems and me having to
 SB> learn Win95 'over the phone', by asking them questions.  I've installed
 SB> it, looked at it, and I must admit that I'm disappointed.  I had heard
 SB> a lot of hype, and a lot of comments about how user friendly it was,
 SB> how you could do so many things with it.  But my initial though on it
 SB> was: "What, this is all that there is?"  I couldn't believe it.  I
 SB> always believed that Win95 could compete against OS/2, and now I see
 SB> for myself that it just isn't so.

For me, the reasons for running OS/2 are more technical.  I need things
like virtual com ports and virtual DOS machines.  These are sadly absent
in Win 95. :-(  In addition, the number of processes running here at any
given time is close to 10 (inetd, 2 telnet BBS nodes, GIGO gateway and
NNTP client, this editor session, often a couple of Win-OS/2 apps, and 2
copies of OS2EXECD, so DOS sessions can start OS/2 apps. :-) ).
Win 95 simply doesn't offer these facilities. :-(  Unfortunately, it
won't be long before I have to seriously consider running it.  If that
happens, it will be on a separate machine...
 SB> I've been using OS/2 for 2 years now, and I find it difficult
 SB> to use an OS that works against me.  I need templates. I need shadows.
 SB> I need to be able to drag and drop objects.  I need superior
 SB> multitasking:  I rarely have less than 4 programs running.  I need
 SB> OS/2.
Same here. :-)  (did you look at the list of apps running most of the
time above? :-) ).
... My Information Superhighway has potholes in it!
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