Hello Stewart,

18 Oct 99 10:27, Stewart Honsberger wrote to Jonathan de Boyne Pollard:

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

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

As should be obvious, no, you cannot run a GUI application (like Netscape)
while running in text-mode. On any operating system. But, can you multitask?
Certainly. The GUI is *NOT* required for multitasking, unlike Windows.

 SH>  Why install the overhead of OS/2,
 SH> when I could just as easily run DOS?

Depends on how much you value stability, reliability, and multitasking,
multithreading capability.

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

For starters, take a look at the START and DETACH commands.


Kenneth (kabrams@us.hsanet.net)

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