Hi Maurice,

 MK> While I have your attention, why are OS/2 people so 
 MK> attracted to running DOS apps on OS/2?  

That is so simple most people completely miss it, OS/2 is simply a much
better DOS than DOS. However I agree, DOS apps have inherent limitations
and should be avoided wherever possible...

Prior to OS/2 I ran Desqview on a 386 to multi-task DOS and that was a huge
improvement over single tasking DOS, however after looking at OS/2 V1.0 and
deciding to wait until PM became available, and then looking at OS/2 V1.2
(and backing off again due to its huge memory requirement, it need 4MB just
to install), when OS/2 V1.3 came out, MS were pretty much out of the
picture by then and the memory footprint had shrunk to something
acceptable. I got my first 486 with 8MB of Memory just before OS/2 v2.0
Beta program was announced so I picked up OS/2 v1.3 and have never looked
back since...

However I can't remember when I last used a DOS app at all (possibly around
OS/2 v2.1 in 1993/4???), and then it would have been a once per week app
that was non-critical for me. Since then its been 100% OS/2, so no, OS/2
people are NOT attracted to DOS at all, they are attracted to
OS/2........;-)

You will note the app I suggested has both OS/2 and DOS versions...

Cheers..............pk.


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