Subj : Re: edit in windows 7 64b
To : mark lewis
From : James Coyle
Date : Wed Jan 13 2016 12:22 am
ml> HG> The multitasking under OS/2 was so much faster, that I never again
ml> HG> considered the return to DOS/DV.
ml>
ml> same here... plus i was able to throw up another X number of nodes with
ml> no troubles and OS/2 handled it great... with DV i had to make sure that
ml> the memory was accessible in a certain way or DV simply would not see
ml> and use it...
I think DV wa great, but you're right you had to allocate exactly whatever
resources it could use up front; there was no sharing between. But even so, it
was better than Windows at the time and it worked amazingly well if you had the
resources to give each process!
OS/2 was by far better than either of them like you guys say, but the issue
there was hardware and drivers with incompatibility issues...
There was so much generic PC hardware that running OS/2 then was like building
a Hackintosh now, you have to build the hardware specifically for the operating
system...
I bought WARP and never got it to work on any hardware I ever owned, from my
486/66 to a friends 486/50 to my P2/300. I spend hours and hours talking with
IBM support trying to get it to work, and it just never even installed
correctly.
Oddly enough I've still struggled with it with VMware and Virutal Box too,
getting eCS to work with a USB drive, or even with networking, so that I
could port Mystic to it.
