Hello Stewart,

21 Oct 99 10:33, Stewart Honsberger wrote to Jack Stein:

 SH> This, and all other responses about multi-tasking are completely
 SH> irrelevant, and 100% non-helpful.

And all completely in response to *your* statement that OS/2 is GUI-based
(which it is NOT) and additional statements made by you regarding booting OS/2 
to text mode.

 SH> Running in text-only mode is NOT ACCEPTABLE. I want to be able to use

It is, however, completely possible, despite statements by you indicating
otherwise.

 SH> my 4 MB EDO S3 Virge/DX video card with OS/2 Warp 4 without my system
 SH> crashing when I get to a DOS prompt. Unless anybody can help me
 SH> with this problem, rather than going off on a tangeant about booting
 SH> to text mode, please do not respond.

You didn't *ask* for help or really describe any such problem. You said:

 SH> When I applied a fixpack (12) to OS/2, the video drivers barfed and
 SH> it wouldn't boot. Since OS/2 is GUI based, I was screwed.

                       ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

This statement is completely false and *that* is what brought on the
discussion about booting it to text mode. Nobody went off on a tangent, we
merely responded to incorrect statements *you* made.


Kenneth (kabrams@us.hsanet.net)

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