Zoe Grace wrote:
> Hi Everyone.
>
> My name is Zoe and I am new to this forum.
>
> I used to use OS/2 Warp 3 and 4 with Lotus SmartSuite, Word Perfect,
> Describe, Clearlook etc. I chose OS/2 because it worked better on my PC
> than Windows 3.1 which I never got to work satisfactorily. I got tired
> of repeated crashes and freezes and OS/2 was much more stable and faster
> with the very few Windows apps that I ran.
>
> In 2004 my ten year old 486 OS/2 PC was starting to creak rather badly.
> My  Mother bought me a new Pentium 4 with WIndows XP pre-installed. In
> terms of performance it was a backward step. It was slow and buggy and
> my 16 Bit Windows and WIndows 9* apps did not run well. However, with
> Open Office I was able to migrate most of my SmartSuite files across. Of
> course, Open Office was a poor replacement for SmartSuite.
>
> This PC did not last anything like as well as my old 486. I recently
> bought a Coe 2 Duo with Vista Prei-nstalled and Office 2007. This is my
> current main machine.
>
> I also have a MacBook with OS X  and a ThinkPad R50e with eCS. I have
> not found a great deal of use for the ThinkPad largely because;
>
> a) I cannot get Lotus Smart Suite to install for some reason.
> b) I cannot get WinOS2 to work. Every time I try it crashes.
>
> I am still getting used to OS X but I like it a lot and I am looking
> forward to Leopard which looks terrific.
>
> I would like to get OS/2 working again sometime. However, while I am not
> impressed with Vista - it has even less DOS/16 Bit support and there are
> no drivers for one or two of my crucial NT applications - I am impressed
> with OS X. Apple seem to have done all the things that IBM should have
> done to market it and it has some good developers on board.
>
> In summary, as I said, I am not impressed with Vista. I am seriously
> considering switching to Ubuntu Linux with Beryl. I am open to
> persuasion however if anyone can say why installing OS/2/ECS on a Core 2
> Duo PC  is worth the trouble.  What has happened with OS/2 and
> eCOMSTATION in the last three years while I have been away? I believe
> that it is possible to run it alongside OS X using Parallels. I also
> gather it is pretty tricky to install it on a Core2Duo PC? Is there
> anything that would make it worth the effort? It would be good to run
> some of the old Apps again. It looks as though 16 Bit Windows apps do
> not run at all under Vista and even some of the later Windows Apps do
> not run properly or crash repeatedly.  I still see a possible role for
> OS/2 running legacy software. Is there any other positive reason for
> running OS/2?
>
> Zoe
>   
Hi  Zoe,

Welcome back from Australia!

I don't have any SMP equipment here yet, but I know people on these 
lists who have no trouble with AMD SMP (AM2) who are successfully 
running eCS, and I'm sure that you'll get a lot of positive responses 
from iNTEL users.

I'm sure that you could get assistance in installing LSS on that 
thinkpad - have you yet visited http://news.ecomstation.com - there is a 
fair bit of traffic there, and people are friendly.

Hope all goes well for you.

This is just a fill-in to let you know that we are hearing you! :-)

Regards,
Mike


 
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