Re: Installing Warp on Junk Machinery

["James D. Besser" jbesser@xxxxxxxx]

On Tue, 20 Dec 1994, harmon seaver wrote:

> Again, James, you are basing all this on one attempt at
installing Warp > on what was clearly a dying machine. Why don't
you try it on a real > computer, i.e., one fully functioning?
And no, you surely don't need 16MB > of RAM. I've only got 8 and
switching is just a click away. And since > desqview, when I ran
it on my 386dx33 w/8MB was clearly slower than OS/2 > 2.0, plus
a lot less stable (and I spent a couple of years tweaking it) >
and a lot of things just wouldn't work in it, like my voice mail
system, > that work fine in OS/2 --- and Warp is much, much
faster than 2.0, and > much more stable. >  Just for kicks,
try running windoz in a desqview window once. BTW, did > you
figure out how to cut and paste yet? I'd look it up, put I guess
I > tossed the DV manual.

I did have Warp running on a fully functional machine for a few
days. Undoubtedly I could have tweaked it some more. But DV does
exactly what I want, simply. I'm not morally opposed to Warp; it
just didn't seem to be what I needed.
   I did solve the DV problem: changed the keyboard protection
variables. Now it works perfectly. I can clip text from an
on-line message and immediately paste it into the XyWrite file
I'm editing. That's about as far as I need to go with
multitasking.

jb