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- >>>>> "Alex" == Alex Newman <alexn@fl.net.au> writes:
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- Alex> 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.
-
- Alex> :(
-
- Alex> 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).
-
- Alex> I'm currently running 1.99p9 on Warp Connect, and everything
- Alex> appears to be fine, including transparency between
- Alex> linux/Warp/DOS/Executor, CD-ROM accessibility etc., as per
- Alex> my last note to you. There does not appear to be any
- Alex> performance hit associated with p9, and from subjective
- Alex> observation p9 is running at least as well as p6 (I didn't
- Alex> really give p8 much of a go due to time limits :), if not
- Alex> better, especially reading the floppy drives.
-
- Alex> NisusWriter still won't install (let alone run!), but that's
- Alex> not a Warp problem. (Am I hanging out for the day when it
- Alex> *does* work!!!).
-
- We've made some progress and *might* have it running in house by the
- end of this week. No promises, since once we get over the AEGizmos
- mountain we don't know if we'll see the promised land or more
- mountains.
-
- Alex> The speakers go 'click' when E/D starts up on OS/2, which is
- Alex> thoroughly encouraging, and interesting considering that the
- Alex> OS/2-DOS SoundBlaster16 installation hasn't been properly
- Alex> configured yet!
-
- Alex> The cd-rom drive is a bit slow to read, but the Linux
- Alex> partitions read via the OS/2 ext2fs driver are lightning
- Alex> fast in appearing - roll on the OS/2 version of Executor so
- Alex> that I can read long file names via Executor! I can see long
- Alex> file names on the Linux partiton via OS/2, but not via
- Alex> Executor.
-
- Alex> Speedometer also runs fully without breaking now, but I
- Alex> still can't switch between E/D and the Desktop without E/D
- Alex> snapping. Curiously, I can actually do this on another
- Alex> machine running E/D (in Demo mode) on Warp Connect with a
- Alex> Trident 8900D or similar card and out-of-the-box SVGA
- Alex> dirvers (this machine's got a #9 GXE64 Pro 2Mb with highly
- Alex> suspect drivers from #9).
-
- Yes, it's drivers problem. Ugh. I can't wait til we have native
- versions for W95 and OS/2.
-
- Alex> Cheers, Alex
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- --Cliff
- ctm@ardi.com
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