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- From: bbs.bromgrev@gilligan.tsoft.net (Carl Merritt)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: News on 2.1 Release
- Message-ID: <Hm6XXB2w165w@gilligan.tsoft.net>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 19:07:04 GMT
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- Organization: The TSoft BBS and Public Access Unix, +1 415 969 8238
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- > > Package 2 = All windows 3.1 support if you stick the windows 3.1
- > > installation disk in the drive when prompted
- > > User pays IBM price (MS already got their money)
- >
- > Future IBM plans I believe. Does anyone know if it is possible to run
- > Windows under an OS2 Dos ?- Just tried, objects to "another protected
- > mode program running. Tried win /3 and it simply crashed with no error
- > message. But ctrl-Esc brought me back to the desktop.
- > How are IBM going to run Windows (future plans) under OS2 without the
- > protection schemes fighting?
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- Windows runs as a DPMI server, and can not be a client to anything else.
- So when OS2v2 sets up the DPMI in a DOS BOX, OS2v2 is the server, so
- Windows freaks. That's the main change to Win-OS2 3.0 and 3.1, so they
- can be DPMI clients to OS2v2. If you set up a virtual boot image, I thik
- you can get Windows to work, but I have never tried...
-
- Carl
- bbs.bromgrev@tsoft.net
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- Carl Merritt (bbs.bromgrev@gilligan.tsoft.net)
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