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echo: os2prog
to: Jack Stein
from: Stewart Davis
date: 1995-11-12 18:07:00
subject: PM Shell

-=> Quoting Jack Stein to Mark Woolworth <=-

 JS> {at}MSGID: 1:129/171.0 a3ad5a4
 JS> {at}REPLY: 1:209/705.0 30a14396
 JS> Mark Woolworth wrote in a message to Cesar Barria:
 
 MW> Yes. PMShell is actually run twice. 
 
 MW> The first time it is run, OS/2's multitasking features are
 MW> activated.  

 JS> Mark, I believe your confusing OS/2 with DOS/Windows.  OS/2
 JS> multi-tasks just fine w/o PMShell.  DOS requires a shell such as DV or
 JS> Win to multi-task, not OS/2.  The OS/2 kernal is a multi-tasking
 JS> kernal, and does not need PMShell at all.  Some can take advantage of
 JS> multi-tasking better with PMShell, others don't need, or want PMShell.

Jack, Mark is right on this one. There are two copies of PMSHELL.EXE
loaded. You can kill one of them but will loose some features (forget
exactly which) until you reboot again.

Regards,

Stu Davis


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