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Article #2569Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96)
From: wver... Wim Verveen
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 00:00
Date: Sun, 16 Jul 1995 00:00
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In article <DBrHK...@cunews.carleton.ca>,
cor...@chat.carleton.ca (Christina O'Regan) wrote:
> Wim Verveen (wver...@xs4all.nl) wrote:
> > In article <950713193...@agora.carleton.ca>,
> > cor...@chat.carleton.ca (Christina O'Regan) wrote:
> > > I suggest that you try removing some non-needed device drivers from
> > > the installation disk. For me, it hung as well. So I simply removed
> > > some device drivers that did not apply to me, and it worked perfectly.
>
> > Sounds like an interesting suggestion. I will try that out. But I must
> > say it sounds like a lousy installation procedure. This is the nineties!
>
>
> Yes, I know it's not the best installation procedure, but it does work
> for many systems. In my opinion, what needs to be improved are the
> device drivers, not the installation procedure (to much). It's the
> device drivers that are hanging because they are recieving errenous
> results from hardware other than the hardware the device driver is for.
I already suggested somewhere this is the major downside of os/2. They
have to improve this part will they ever be succesfull
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From: wver...@xs4all.nl (Wim Verveen) Subject: Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96) Date: 1995/07/16 Message-ID: <QeZCwIxWcHhB083yn@xs4all.nl> X-Deja-AN: 106423419 references: <9507131936.AA00427@agora.carleton.ca> <K5bBwIxWcvUP083yn@xs4all.nl> organization: XS4ALL, the Netherlands x-posted-by: wver...@xs1.xs4all.nl newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit