Hello Steven,

 MvdV>> A dos box in Windows is just that: a DOS box. It is just the
 MvdV>> opposite of OS/2 in text mode. Contrary to the latter is has the
 MvdV>> drawbacks of both Windows and DOS. A DOS box in Windows is
 MvdV>> subject to all the limitations of DOS. 640K should be enough for
 MvdV>> everybody and such. In addition to that it is slowed down by the
 MvdV>> Windows graphic shell.

 SH> Since my DOS boxes all have provision for both expanded or
 SH> extended memory up to at least 4 Mb, we must be talking
 SH> about different versions of Windows.

As I said a DOS box in Windows has all the limitations of DOS. To use more
that 640K one needs tricks like expanded or extended memory. You can only
run 16 bit porogrammes and you can only use the extended/expanded memory
for data.

OS/2 in text mode on the other hand has the full memory available as a flat
32 bit address space.

 SH> As for speed, my primary PC has 512Mb of RAM and a PIII-864 mhz
 SH> processor so slowdowns are not a major problem.

You wouldn't need such outlandish resources in the first place if your OS
wasn't such a resource hog.

OS/2 runs fine on a 40 MHz 386 with 8 Mb of ram.

Have you ever compared MS Word with the good old WP5? I say as far as text
processing goes, nothing has ever beaten WP5. Everything that came later
only needed more memory and faster machines....


Cheers, Michiel

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