Stewart Honsberger wrote in a message to Jack Stein:

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

Sorry, I thought you needed help understanding that OS/2 multitasks superbly
without PMShell loaded.  I think your question went exactly like this:

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

That, along with the statement that you might as well run DOS as OS/2 w/o
PMShell tended to indicate you needed some help in this area, as you don't
know what you are talking about.  It is DOS that can't multitask w/o the
Windows shell loaded, not OS/2.  I guess you just got your head up your ass
too far for a moment, as this is a basic tenet of OS/2 VS DOS/WIN/WIN95.

 SH> I use OS/2 as a personnal desktop machine. I use a VIO ICQ
 SH> client, a PM web browser, a PM e-mail client, a VIO MP3
 SH> player, etc.. etc.. etc.. 

In that case it would be silly for you to multitask applications in OS/2 w/o
PMSHELL loaded as no PM application will run w/o PMShell, just as no Windows
application will run without the windows graphical shell loaded on top of DOS, 
or [I presume] any Linux Xwindow apps w/o xwindows loaded.

 SH> Running in text-only mode is NOT ACCEPTABLE. 

Perhaps for you, but that has little to do with your question, or statements
regarding multitasking OS/2 in text mode.

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

Post your hardware questions in the OS2 Hardware echo for more luck on that
topic. Don't go off on a tangent here unless you want the tangent issues
discussed.

                                              Jack 
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