Almost sneering at our ignorance, IBM's publicity material reels off hundreds of MS Window's failings and smugly explains to us why Warp is so superior. The claims are as extravagant as they are numerous and it would take an eternity to address them all.
The purpose of this review is to determine OS/2 Warp's suitability for the average home user's requirements.
THE most logical place to begin would be the installation process. According to the literature all I had to do was select the Easy Install option and OS/2 would do the rest, it would automatically detect my hardware setup and configure itself accordingly.
This was true as far as the SoundBlaster 16 sat in my machine was concerned, but when it came to my CD-Rom drive and SVGA card Warp didn't want to know.
A recent IBM press release enthused that Dell were to offer Warp as an alternative to Windows for their customers.
