Stewart Honsberger wrote in a message to Jonathan de Boyne Pollard:

 SH> 11 Oct 99 07:49, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote to Stewart
 SH> Honsberger: 

 JdBP> It's quite easy to boot OS/2 to text-mode.  Just press ALT-F1 when 
 JdBP> the white "?? OS/2" blob appears, and then choose the option to 
 JdBP> boot to a command line.

 SH> Can I load Netscape? Can I multi-task?

 SH> When OS/2 is booted to text mode, I can't even load VModem and 
 SH> a mailer window at the same time. Why install the overhead of 
 SH> OS/2, when I could just as easily run DOS?

You _can_ multi-task,  it jjust takes a different approach to things.

 SH> Tell me how to multitask without any PM activity loaded.

RTFM?  :-)

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