IT>>   Only the user input is blocked, while the rest of the programs run
 IT>> totaly unhindered. I think it is very sad that for all that they did,
 IT>> the designers of OS/2 didn's pay attention to this little detail.

 IT>>   A mis-behaving application can (and does) sometimes even block the
 IT>> PM   in this way, if it dies or hangs in middle of its message
 IT>> processing.

 MS> yes. we all know this since 1988. and? first IBM said they will
 MS> implement a workaround as the implemented OS/ 2.0, then they said
 MS> "no, with WARP3", and with WARP 4 they shipped a way to kill
 MS> misbehaved applications.

  And what is this way? Does it come by default, or it requires some
  fixpacks? I've never seen anything like it on my machine, could you
  explain?

 MS> this feature is not important enough for IBM.

         Apparently... :(

 MS> when YOU write an application, then simple write it accoring to the 10ms
 MS> rule.

     Oh, I do! It is not my applications that bother me :)

                                                            - Ivan -

.!. Love is grand. Divorce is fifty grand.
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