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Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96)

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From: wver... Wim Verveen
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
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