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? 

Netscape is a PM application.  You can't run a PM app from OS/2 anymore than
you can run a WIN application from DOS.

 SH> Can I multi-task?

Of course, OS/2 is a multitasking OS.

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

You can run all the non-pm applications you want, you just can't see them all
on the screen at the same time, and to switch to the forground/background you
need a switcher, like PGMSHELL that comes with TSHELL.  

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

Detach a program, it will run concurrently. Grab a copy of TSHELL and run it
instead of PMSHELL for the ability to switch sessions to the
foreground/background.   I thought you said you had run TSHELL at one time?

 SH> I realize that. I believe in my explanation I detailed the
 SH> fact that resetting to VGA mode wasn't sufficient, that I
 SH> had to boot to the command line and re-apply the fixpack to
 SH> replace the display DLL's. 

Your explaination was silly.  You compared OS/2 in graphics mode running
PMSHELL to UNIX in text mode, not running xwindows.  Apples and Oranges.

OS/2 multitasks fine w/o PMSHELL, and is not at all like running DOS, which is 
not able to multitask, period.  

I hope you get sued for slander for misrepresenting the truth:-)

                                              Jack 
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