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to: Stewart Honsberger
from: Mike Roark
date: 1999-10-19 20:42:03
subject: Text-mode OS/2

Hello Stewart!

Monday October 18 1999 10:27, Stewart Honsberger wrote to Jonathan de Boyne
Pollard:

 JdBP>> option to boot to a command line.

 SH> Can I load Netscape? Can I multi-task?
         no                  yes

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

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

Easy..

Start /b myprogram
Start /b next program
start /b and so on.....

Then use ALT-ESC to switch between them.

Works for me..


Have a good day!!
Mike
Internet bcomber@cave.fido.de
This OS/2 system uptime is 0d 3h 13m 38s 843ms (en).

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