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- From: claudio.fahey@idcbbs.com (Claudio Fahey)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: os/2 2.1 beta - my 2 cents worth
- Message-ID: <6453.1032.uupcb@idcbbs.com>
- Date: 21 Jan 93 14:20:00 GMT
- Distribution: world
- Organization: IDC BBS - Alameda, CA - 510-865-7115
- Reply-To: claudio.fahey@idcbbs.com (Claudio Fahey)
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- To: gah@board8.uucp (Gregg Hungerford)
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- GH> Some observations about the 2.1 beta:
- GH> It looks nice, like the improvements are worth waiting for but it's too
- GH> buggy for me. The windows 3.1 looked good but I crashed it a couple of time
- GH> The multimedia thing didn't behave at all (I have soundblaster 2.0). Perhap
- GH> I missed something somewhere, but I still had 16 glorious colors (I have
- GH> 16 million working on windows 3.1 - a cirrus avga3 card).
- GH> I also finally discovered why NOT to use hpfs. The multimedia drivers
- GH> crashed the system during the os2 boot. I couldn't access the hpfs partitio
- GH> from my dos/windows partition, so I couldn't remove the drivers and had
- GH> to start over from scratch. Anyone know any other recovery?
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- Sure. You could have just booted with the original OS/2 disks and then
- exit the installation program to the command prompt. You then could
- have used an OS/2 editor, such as Technical Editor ( T.EXE ), and
- modify the config.sys, or you could have just deleted the driver.
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- . OLX 2.1 TD . We should go metric every inch of the way!
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