On May 25, 1996 at 08:13, Bill Grimsley of 3:640/305.9 wrote:

 BG> Damn and fuck!  It's on his board somewhere, but no problem, I've
 BG> UUencoded it, and will send it to you as netmail instead.

Yeah, Paul finally sent it.

 db>> Let me guess, Paul - you don't have the technology, right?  ;-)
 BG> I think he wants TIC files, but surely not for simple file-attaches?

Seems so...

 db>> Seen the new interface to appear with Merlin (OS/2 Warp Version 4)?
 BG> Nope.  You forget that MY OS/2 ain't broke...

It isn't always *just* an issue of being "broke" - some new
features are worth a product upgrade (same goes for modem Flash ROM
upgrades...).  For example, there's rumours of built-in TrueType font
support (in OS/2 itself, as opposed to just WinOS/2), OpenDoc, colour-coded
reorganised notebooks, redesigned window buttons/frames, DIVE, DAX, etc.

 db>> And joy of joys, DEATH TO THE UGLY SYSTEM FONT!!  :-)
 BG> In a CLI, you mean?  Funny, I don't mind the font at all here.

GUI "System" font (ATM-controlled), not CLI.

 BG> I hope so, although my WFW 2.0c still works great under WinOS2 anyway.

WFW 2.0c is good for quick and dirty documents, but my main two gripes with it are:

1.  It's a pain for long organised documents (>100 pages);  and,
2.  It's a Windows application - I've long since gone "PROTECTONLY=YES".

 db>> I ain't giving my 32Mb to WinNT that easily!!
 BG>
 BG> Why not?

Simple - any functionality gain is offset by the lacking available memory
which leads to decreased performance and a need for me to upgrade memory
again.

 BG> All you'll need is a 64Mb swapfile as well, and away you go... :)

Like hell!  I can run Linux at the moment with X11 (windowing/GUI) running
and still have 16Mb *RAM* free, not using a single byte of swap space!!

 db>> I'd rather run Quake or Linux, quite frankly.  ;-)
 BG> Will either of those run OS/2 or Windows apps though?

Linux should be able to run Windows apps in time (WINE and other efforts
currently in development), and no doubt someone will write a plug-in for
Quake too (they've developed about everything else so far..).

Cheers..

    - dave
    d.begley{at}ieee.org

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