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- From: goyal@utdallas.edu (MOHIT K GOYAL)
- Subject: OS/2 2.1 Beta is OUT!!!!!!!!!!! Wide Release!
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- Organization: Univ. of Texas at Dallas
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 07:17:37 GMT
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- THIS IS NOT AN OFFICIAL IBM ANNOUNCEMENT
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- IBM Boca has released OS/2 2.1 beta last Friday to internal IBMers.
- This is a wide beta release, and is to be given out to customers after
- 12/28/92. The major ISVs will receive their copy first before external
- customers do. If you know an IBM SE, he or she may be able to give you
- a demo as early as next week.
-
- No official announcement has been made, but I expect this to be formally
- announced in the coming week. Expect a version of this beta code to be
- available on CD also.
-
- The beta consists of 29 disks. Install disk, disk 1-19, 5 printer
- driver disks (I saw LaserJet 4 drivers), 2 display driver disks, and 2
- for MMPM/2 (including Sound Blaster/Sound Blaster Pro drivers).
-
- I have this installed over the weekend. So far, everything looks
- essentially like 2.0 except the WPS is now coming up and shutting down a
- lot faster. Only WinOS2 3.1 is provided in this release. WinOS2 setup
- now has a radio button to explicitly turn on Enhanced mode support. So
- far I haven't been able to get WinRIX to work with my 8514 Ultra under
- Enhanced mode (I was able to launch DOS AND OS/2 app from within WinOS2
- 3.1, however). Perhaps I'll retest it under SuperVGA mode. To 8514
- users: the annoying mouse cursor blotching problem is gone, switching
- between OS/2 desktop and WinOS2 full screen will restore mouse cursor
- properly at full video speed. Palette in WinOS2 is restored also, so
- apps like CorelDraw and PageMaker will work correctly after a screen
- switch. No seamless 8514 driver yet, however, SYSTEM.INI does reference
- to a seamless 8514 driver (swin8514.drv). There is also a FAX/PM applet
- provided by Microformatic. I have no FAX modem to test this, but from
- what I gathered, it is limited to FAXing a one page document.
-
- I'll have more to report in the coming week.
-
- Albert
-