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- From: jhjarta@ibm.net
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- Subject: Re: Anyone running E/D 1.99p9 under OS/2?
- Date: 28 Dec 1995 21:45:19 GMT
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- In <199512281102.WAA14766@imp.fl.net.au>, alexn@fl.net.au (Alex Newman) writes:
- >Hi Cliff,
- >Hi there Cliff,
- >
- >>We have never had a good installation of OS/2 on our TI4000M and so
- >>it's hard for us to tell whether or not 1.99p9 is running properly
- >>under OS/2.
- >
- >:(
- >
- >If you have installed 1.99p6 and then 1.99p9 on top of it
- >>under OS/2, please let me know whether Executor/DOS 1.99p9 worked as
- >>well as 1.99p6 itself did under OS/2, or worked better, or worked
- >>worse. We need this information in order to build 1.99q, which we
- >>want to get out real soon (so we can work on MACWORLD Expo
- >>preparations).
- >
- >I'm currently running 1.99p9 on Warp Connect, and everything appears to be
- >fine, including transparency between linux/Warp/DOS/Executor, CD-ROM
- >accessibility etc., as per my last note to you. There does not appear to be any
- >performance hit associated with p9, and from subjective observation p9 is
- >running at least as well as p6 (I didn't really give p8 much of a go due to
- >time limits :), if not better, especially reading the floppy drives.
- >
- >NisusWriter still won't install (let alone run!), but that's not a Warp
- >problem. (Am I hanging out for the day when it *does* work!!!).
- >
- >The speakers go 'click' when E/D starts up on OS/2, which is thoroughly
- >encouraging, and interesting considering that the OS/2-DOS SoundBlaster16
- >installation hasn't been properly configured yet!
- >
- >The cd-rom drive is a bit slow to read, but the Linux partitions read via the
- >OS/2 ext2fs driver are lightning fast in appearing - roll on the OS/2 version
- >of Executor so that I can read long file names via Executor! I can see long
- >file names on the Linux partiton via OS/2, but not via Executor.
- >
- >Speedometer also runs fully without breaking now, but I still can't switch
- >between E/D and the Desktop without E/D snapping. Curiously, I can actually do
- >this on another machine running E/D (in Demo mode) on Warp Connect with a
- >Trident 8900D or similar card and out-of-the-box SVGA dirvers (this machine's
- >got a #9 GXE64 Pro 2Mb with highly suspect drivers from #9).
- >
- >Cheers, Alex
- >
- >
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- Hi,
- I'm the one who sent in the bug report to ARDI about general protection
- faults by p9 under WARP. The p6 load works fine. I'd be interested in knowing
- if there are any special settings you had to tweak to run it ? Thx ...Jim
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