Re: Windows vs DOS XyWrite vs the future?

[hseaver@xxxxxxxx (Harmon Seaver)]

> I'm deciding on a notebook computer (and would be grateful for >
recommendations), but this posting was prompted by Steve Crutchfield's >
laudatory statements about OS/2.
> > If OS/2 Warp turns out to be a winner as well, I'm considering using it >
as the operating system for my impending notebook. I use XyWin at work > under
Windows and have always had problems with lockups (even after > periodic
reinstallations of both).
> > Are there any cons to running XyWin under OS/2?

   You should have no problem with it. And, FYI, the new OS/2 v. 3.0 which
debuted in the OS/2 For Windoz version this month and the full version I think
on the 25th -- apparently runs on 4 megs of RAM faster than v. 2.1 does on 8
megs. Speaking of smaller -- a friend of mine just installed OS/2 2.1 in only
20 meg of HD space, and said he could have cut even more out -- didn't install
any of the windoz garbage since he doesn't have any windoz apps, cut the games
out and some other stuff he never used in the last two years of running OS/2,
and there it is. In fact, if you wanted to forget about the GUI, and just have
a multi-tasking system that rather resembles Desqview and runs on 4 meg and
probably about
15 meg of HD space. But I'd wait for v. 3, that should be better yet.
That's what I'm thinking of for my next sub-notebook. Running XY3 on my little
Zeos Pocket PC is rather annoying at times
Harmon Seaver hseaver@xxxxxxxx

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