[Am-info] Greenpeace throws out Windows --- a social trend?

[Geoffrey]

John Poltorak wrote:
> On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 08:58:56AM -0400, Geoffrey wrote:
> 
>>John J. Urbaniak wrote:
>>
>>>Geoffrey wrote:

>>>Actually, OS/2 or eCS provides an excellent DOS platform.
>>>
>>I was actually thinking about that in the back of my head.  I've got an 
>>older version of Warp, I might give it a spin.  
>>
> 
> Beware the chances are that it won't install on a modern system straight 
> out of the box - but that will most likely be due to the driver for the 
> disk controller. 4GB was huge at the time Warp 3 came out. Updated drivers 
> should sort out any such problems.

Well, I'd plan to install it on one of my spare boxes, then install her 
software to see if it runs.  Then I'd suggest to her to purchase eCS for 
  a trial effort.

> 
> 
>>If it flies, I would 
>>recommend eCS for this environment.  Thanks for the suggestion.
>>
>>Just to make sure I understand this though....  The way it currently 
>>works is, she boots a windows box, starts a program from a desktop icon 
>>and it shutdowns windows, then fires up the dos program.  Do you think 
>>it will still be a viable solution?
>>
> 
> The way it works is that OS/2 allows you to run any number of virtual DOS 
> sessions, each one of which can be configured to a high degree often with 
> more free memory than under native DOS.

Cool, since it's the only thing they currently run on this box.

> 
> Under OS/2 you should be able to create an icon on the desktop 
> specifically tailored to the DOS program via its properties and then 
> launch it either as full screen or windowed by clicking on it.
> 
> DOS programs run very well under OS/2, generally without any specific 
> setup, although there are a few which just don't work.  
>  
> 
>>-- 
>>Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric@3times25.net
>>
> 
> 


-- 
Until later: Geoffrey		esoteric@3times25.net

I didn't have to buy my radio from a specific company to listen
to FM, why doesn't that apply to the Internet (anymore...)?