Warp, on the other hand, is quite happy to run several programs at once, just so long as you don't try anything too ambitious. I tried running Doom and Rise of the Triads side by side. Both programs loaded up easily enough but as soon as I tried to switch between them they both crashed terminally. In fact if you try running any application alongside Doom, the same result is achieved.
The dual boot feature allows you to reboot the machine into good old MS-DOS, assuming of course that it is installed. Unfortunately when I tried out this feature my machine crashed leaving me in a state of limbo where I could boot into neither Dos nor Warp.
I could however be wrong - with only 16 colours available it was hard to tell. My search for further evidence of Warp's outstanding multimedia capabilities produced nothing but a handful of particularly uninspiring Midi files. It's a fact of life that the vast majority of software aimed at home users is written for MS-DOS or Windows and while it may run perfectly under OS/2 there's no guarantee that it will. Whether IBM like it or not, this time next year the operating system on the majority of home users' PCs will be Windows 95, and rightly so.
