Personal OS/2 is FAST!!!
Jari Williamsson
I've tested the beta of "Personal OS/2" (or whatever the product name
will be) for a few days now, and it is FAST!!! I have noticed speed
improvement especially in the following areas:
* Booting WPS
* Starting/Loading a new program
* Opening/closing folders
It takes much less memory, the kernel is about 200k smaller for example.
It has nicer graphics (color scheme, background bitmaps, icons) too.
Some things don't work yet, but the product is quite stable.
Very good work, IBM!!!
Sincerely,
Jari Williamsson [ja...@microlearn.se]
Wits End
Jari Williamsson <ja...@microlearn.se> wrote:
>I've tested the beta of "Personal OS/2" (or whatever the product name
>will be) for a few days now, and it is FAST!!! I have noticed speed
>improvement especially in the following areas:
>
>* Booting WPS
>* Starting/Loading a new program
>* Opening/closing folders
>
>It takes much less memory, the kernel is about 200k smaller for example.
What was the hardware configuration of the computer you ran the beta on
(i.e. memory, processor, video card, etc.). I'm just curious.
Also, approximately how much faster is the Personal OS/2 beta compared
to OS/2 [for Windoze] 2.1 GA?
>It has nicer graphics (color scheme, background bitmaps, icons) too.
This is good; while I thought that the 2.x WPS was pretty handsome, the
default icons and desktop configuration leave a bit to be desired. At
least all that is very customizable.
>Some things don't work yet, but the product is quite stable.
What things? Perhaps OpenDoc support? Sorry to be so picky for details,
but I'm busting at the seams to know! ;)
I personally can't wait to see it in action!
>Sincerely,
>
>
>Jari Williamsson [ja...@microlearn.se]
thanks!
scott
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Tom Sorensen
>I've tested the beta of "Personal OS/2" (or whatever the product name
>will be) for a few days now, and it is FAST!!! I have noticed speed
>improvement especially in the following areas:
>* Booting WPS
>* Starting/Loading a new program
>* Opening/closing folders
What configuration was the machine (specifically: CPU, HD speed, memory,
video card)? And do you have any hard numbers for how fast it did things
compared to the current OS/2 for Windows or OS/2 GA (v2.1 or 2.11)?
>It has nicer graphics (color scheme, background bitmaps, icons) too.
I hope to see this at COMDEX... maybe IBM will have it setup tomorrow so
us Teamers can get a sneak peek at it...
Tom Sorensen * gt0...@prism.gatech.edu * Team OS/2
Chairman, Yellow Jacket OS/2 User's Group * Vice President, Georgia Tech ACM
"OS/2 is what DOS and Windows should have been. Windows/NT aspires to become
what OS/2 is." - Lee Reiswig, May, 1993.
TIM SIPPLES
>I've tested the beta of "Personal OS/2" (or whatever the product name
>will be) for a few days now, and it is FAST!!! I have noticed speed
>improvement especially in the following areas:
>* Booting WPS
>* Starting/Loading a new program
>* Opening/closing folders
For those of you in the Chicago, Illinois, area, you can see the new
"Personal OS/2" (a.k.a. "2.Summer," a.k.a. "OS/2 for Windows Performance
Beta 1 Version 2.99") at the North Suburban Chicago OS/2 Users' Group, at
the William M. Mercer Co. building, Lake Cook Road, Deerfield, on Tuesday,
May 24, at 5:30 p.m.
___
* MR/2 * Read the OS/2 FAQ List: anonymous ftp to ftp-os2.cdrom.com
patr...@news.delphi.com
>For those of you in the Chicago, Illinois, area, you can see the new
^^^^^^^
>"Personal OS/2" (a.k.a. "2.Summer," a.k.a. "OS/2 for Windows Performance
Am I the only person who finds this hilarious?
Jari Williamsson
>ja...@microlearn.se (Jari Williamsson) writes:
>>I've tested the beta of "Personal OS/2" (or whatever the product name
>>will be) for a few days now, and it is FAST!!! I have noticed speed
>>improvement especially in the following areas:
>>* Booting WPS
>>* Starting/Loading a new program
>>* Opening/closing folders
>What configuration was the machine (specifically: CPU, HD speed, memory,
>video card)? And do you have any hard numbers for how fast it did things
>compared to the current OS/2 for Windows or OS/2 GA (v2.1 or 2.11)?
My machine is:
* 486/33 DX
* 16 MB memory
* IDE 13 ms hard disk
* ATI Graphics Ultra
I'm using the ATI drivers 1.2 when running OS/2 2.1 GA.
Under "Personal OS/2" I'm using the 8514/A drivers.
The boot time of WPS (from where the gray screen comes up) takes
aprox. 10 seconds instead of 22.
The feeling when working with the WPS in "Personal OS/2" was like
a DX2/66 or faster machine.
One other nice thing; An new DOS/Win setting is available called
VDM_PRIORITY. This settings allow you to tune the thread priority
of the DOS box (between 0 and 31). The priority of this process will
range between 0x200 and 0x21e. I think that this is a much more
effective DOS setting for CPU-demaning programs than the
IDLE_SENSITIVITY etc.
Sincerely,
Jari Williamsson
Jari Williamsson
>In article <y6n3tAe...@microlearn.se>,
>Jari Williamsson <ja...@microlearn.se> wrote:
>>I've tested the beta of "Personal OS/2" (or whatever the product name
>>will be) for a few days now, and it is FAST!!! I have noticed speed
>>improvement especially in the following areas:
>>
>>* Booting WPS
>>* Starting/Loading a new program
>>* Opening/closing folders
>>
>>It takes much less memory, the kernel is about 200k smaller for example.
>What was the hardware configuration of the computer you ran the beta on
>(i.e. memory, processor, video card, etc.). I'm just curious.
My machine is:
* 486/33 DX
* 16 MB memory
* IDE 13 ms hard disk
* ATI Graphics Ultra
When running OS/2 2.1 GA, I'm using the ATI drivers version 1.2.
When running the "Personal OS/2" beta, I use 8514/A drivers.
>Also, approximately how much faster is the Personal OS/2 beta compared
>to OS/2 [for Windoze] 2.1 GA?
The feeling is about twice as fast (sometimes more) in the WPS,
compared to OS/2 2.1 GA.
Tomorrow, I will try to test it on a 386/33 with 4 MB RAM.
>>Some things don't work yet, but the product is quite stable.
>What things? Perhaps OpenDoc support? Sorry to be so picky for details,
>but I'm busting at the seams to know! ;)
Just some things that isn't implemented, or have some bugs. The README
file states that there are some things that don't work, so look in
this file first before you test it.
>I personally can't wait to see it in action!
What I understand is that you will have the possibility to try
the beta Real Soon Now.
Sincerely,
Jari Williamsson
Roger Buffington
: I've tested the beta of "Personal OS/2" (or whatever the product name
: Very good work, IBM!!!
: Sincerely,
: Jari Williamsson [ja...@microlearn.se]
Any indication as to when this version will be commercially released?
Sounds like exactly what I'll want for my Thinkpad 755.
--
ro...@netcom.com
Glendale, CA
AB6WR
Craig Austin
is it going to be the next full OS/2 release or the next flavor of OS/2 4 Win,
or what? (waiting for the OS2BETA forum on CI$ to open 5-24)
--
**********************
Velveeta in the Mud...
**********************
Tom Maki
>So, I maybe have missed this so I apologize, but that is this 'Personal OS/2'..
>is it going to be the next full OS/2 release or the next flavor of OS/2 4 Win,
>or what? (waiting for the OS2BETA forum on CI$ to open 5-24)
I don't have it either, but from reading the announcement
in comp.os.os2.advocacy titled "New OS/2 Beta", it is the OS/2
of Windows beta... you must "have DOS or Windows 3.1 installed in
a partition visible to OS/2 during its installation process."
I think I will order it Monday, and try out on a 4 MB notebook ;-).
Tom
Jari Williamsson
>Jari Williamsson (ja...@microlearn.se) wrote:
>: I've tested the beta of "Personal OS/2" (or whatever the product name
>: will be) for a few days now, and it is FAST!!! I have noticed speed
>: improvement especially in the following areas:
>: * Booting WPS
>: * Starting/Loading a new program
>: * Opening/closing folders
>: It takes much less memory, the kernel is about 200k smaller for example.
>: It has nicer graphics (color scheme, background bitmaps, icons) too.
>: Some things don't work yet, but the product is quite stable.
>Any indication as to when this version will be commercially released?
>Sounds like exactly what I'll want for my Thinkpad 755.
This summer. "Personal OS/2" is also called "2.Summer" by IBM.
Sincerely,
Jari Williamsson
richard pews
: In <2rlkme$i...@news.gatech.edu> sore...@isye.gatech.edu (Tom Sorensen) writes:
: >ja...@microlearn.se (Jari Williamsson) writes:
: I'm using the ATI drivers 1.2 when running OS/2 2.1 GA.
: Under "Personal OS/2" I'm using the 8514/A drivers.
: The boot time of WPS (from where the gray screen comes up) takes
: aprox. 10 seconds instead of 22.
Maybe its just my system, but I found that the ATI drivers added about 10
seconds to the boot time over the 8514/A drivers that ship with 2.11
(probably the same drivers which ship with the Beta), and the 8514/A drivers
seem to be much more responsive. I chose to live with 256 colours and do
away with the ATI drivers. How about loading the ATI drivers with the Beta
to see how it really compares with 2.1 GA?
Regards ...
Rick
*******************************8
Rick Pews
rp...@megan.ryerson.ca
rp...@cobra.megan.ryerson.ca
Ryerson Polytechnic University
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Christopher Wong
> I've tested the beta of "Personal OS/2" (or whatever the product name
> will be) for a few days now, and it is FAST!!! I have noticed speed
> improvement especially in the following areas:
> * Booting WPS
> * Starting/Loading a new program
> * Opening/closing folders
The performance increase is very welcome. However, I am most
interested in any performance improvements running Windows apps. Any
opinions? In the US, folks will compare its performance with Windows
for Workgroups 3.11, which is the most current version of Win. While
OS/2 2.summer (aargh, it still doesn't have a name) is said to install
over WfW 3.11, I doubt if it will use WfW's built-in 32 bit file/disk
access.
> It takes much less memory, the kernel is about 200k smaller for example.
> It has nicer graphics (color scheme, background bitmaps, icons) too.
> Some things don't work yet, but the product is quite stable.
I dunno, the one I saw did not look very different. Then again, I saw
it projected on a screen. The folder icons look the same, and only a
couple of icons were changed (shredder, drives ...). My own 2.11
desktop probably looks better, courtesy of icons from the Hobbes CD
:).
Looking forward to a report of performance on a 4Mb machine ...
Chris
Clark Gaylord
: of Windows beta... you must "have DOS or Windows 3.1 installed in
: a partition visible to OS/2 during its installation process."
Then you have to have an HPFS partition, don't you? If so, this
is a *serious* PITA!
--
Clark K. Gaylord
Department of Statistics
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Blacksburg, Virginia 24061-0433
internet: Clark....@vt.edu
Tom Maki
>: of Windows beta... you must "have DOS or Windows 3.1 installed in
>: a partition visible to OS/2 during its installation process."
>
>Then you have to have an HPFS partition, don't you? If so, this
>is a *serious* PITA!
Um, you do know OS/2 can read/write FAT partitions too...
BTW, I have yet to see a bootable DOS HPFS partition ;-).
You must of been thinking of something else...
Tom
Steve Withers
Jari Williamsson <ja...@microlearn.se> wrote:
>
> I've tested the beta of "Personal OS/2" (or whatever the product name
> will be) for a few days now, and it is FAST!!! I have noticed speed
> improvement especially in the following areas:
>
> * Booting WPS
> * Starting/Loading a new program
> * Opening/closing folders
>
>
> It takes much less memory, the kernel is about 200k smaller for example.
> It has nicer graphics (color scheme, background bitmaps, icons) too.
> Some things don't work yet, but the product is quite stable.
My thoughts exactly. I got the time to load it up last night on my test
system and was *very* impressed by the speed....I didn't even notice that
I had not turned the animation off! It only got better when I did.....:-)
The "fast load" for Windows sessions is impressive, but I don't use
Windows apps.
DOOM ran 100% (I don't have a sound card in this system) right by
clicking the setup.exe icon.....no mods needed.
It ran very quickly, too.
This is fun. Good to be back in the beta saddle again.
Steve
--
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ste...@actrix.gen.nz (all night)
with...@delphi.com (weekly)
swit...@vnet.ibm.com (all day) One of these days I'll have to get a life.
Graeme Perkins
>
>
>I've tested the beta of "Personal OS/2" (or whatever the product name
>will be) for a few days now, and it is FAST!!! I have noticed speed
>improvement especially in the following areas:
>
>* Booting WPS>* Starting/Loading a new program
>* Opening/closing folders
>
Is this WIN 32s compatible?
Graeme
Todd M Jimenez
: In article <y6n3tAe...@microlearn.se>, Jari Williamsson wrote:
: > I've tested the beta of "Personal OS/2" (or whatever the product name
: > will be) for a few days now, and it is FAST!!! I have noticed speed
: > improvement especially in the following areas:
: > * Booting WPS
: > * Starting/Loading a new program
: > * Opening/closing folders
: The performance increase is very welcome. However, I am most
: interested in any performance improvements running Windows apps. Any
: opinions? In the US, folks will compare its performance with Windows
: for Workgroups 3.11, which is the most current version of Win. While
: OS/2 2.summer (aargh, it still doesn't have a name) is said to install
: over WfW 3.11, I doubt if it will use WfW's built-in 32 bit file/disk
: access.
um, I believe that os/2 currently preforms 32 bit fat accesses,
while the hpfs accesses is still strangly 16 bit...
--
-fuZZy
<did they buy it?>
<I don't think they bought it.>
<of course they bought it.>
<shush, they're looking this way, remember to keep a straight face...>
Steve Withers
I'm using it now. I installed PCDOS 6.3 onto my (FAT) C: drive. Then
installed Windows 3.1 onto my (FAT) D: drive. I then booted OS/2 off my
E: drive and dragged the whole Windows direcotry to my F: drive. I then
formatted the D: drive as HPFS, then dragged \Windows back to D:.
I then installed the Performance Beta onto D:. It did not see the Windows
3.1 at this point. Hmm.....
So when it had started up, I did a selective install of WinoS/2 support.
It told me I did not have enough disk space - I ignored it as I had
heaps. It asked for all the right disks. When it was done, i shutdown and
re-booted and my Windows support worked fine - from HPFS using Winodws
3.1.
This is the fastest version of OS/2 I have seen yet. No bugs to report so
far (unless the above is not functioning as designed).
I now have NTS/2 (wr07045 level), Lan Server Req V3.0 (wr07000) and Comms
Manager/2 V1.1 installed and it is all working great!
Colin Bigam
>tim.s...@gco.com (TIM SIPPLES) writes:
I thought it was priceless. Chicago is the perfect place to demo an IBM
product.
Colin
Phil Kaaret
>>What things? Perhaps OpenDoc support? Sorry to be so picky for details,
>>but I'm busting at the seams to know! ;)
>Just some things that isn't implemented, or have some bugs. The README
>file states that there are some things that don't work, so look in
>this file first before you test it.
Would it be possible to post the readme, so those of us planning to
order the CD-ROM could see if it would be worthwhile first? If this
is not possible, please give the number of the disk image that contains
the readme.
David Charlap
>So, I maybe have missed this so I apologize, but that is this 'Personal OS/2'..
>is it going to be the next full OS/2 release or the next flavor of OS/2 4 Win,
>or what? (waiting for the OS2BETA forum on CI$ to open 5-24)
According to the last thing I read in PC Week, Personal OS/2 will be
the next release of OS/2 for Windows.
A full-blown edition of OS/2 (full-function OS/2) will be available by
year's end. That version will include lots of good stuff. And it
will probably have an introductary price under $100.
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Visix Software, Inc. +--------------------------------------------------------
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Steve Withers
Clark Gaylord <gay...@vtaix.cc.vt.edu> wrote:
> Tom Maki (t...@chaos.gw.umn.edu) wrote:
> : of Windows beta... you must "have DOS or Windows 3.1 installed in
> : a partition visible to OS/2 during its installation process."
>
> Then you have to have an HPFS partition, don't you? If so, this
> is a *serious* PITA!
No. You can hapily install OS/2 onto a blank HPFS partition. I did it
night before last when I formatted my D: drive as HPFS, copied my Win3.1
onto it - then installed the Performance Beta on top of that.
Summary: OS/2 happily installs onto a blank HPFS partition.
Steve Withers
Christopher Wong <wo...@husc4.harvard.edu> wrote:
> In article <y6n3tAe...@microlearn.se>, Jari Williamsson wrote:
> > I've tested the beta of "Personal OS/2" (or whatever the product name
> > will be) for a few days now, and it is FAST!!! I have noticed speed
> > improvement especially in the following areas:
> > * Booting WPS
> > * Starting/Loading a new program
> > * Opening/closing folders
>
> The performance increase is very welcome. However, I am most
> interested in any performance improvements running Windows apps. Any
> opinions? In the US, folks will compare its performance with Windows
> for Workgroups 3.11, which is the most current version of Win. While
> OS/2 2.summer (aargh, it still doesn't have a name) is said to install
> over WfW 3.11, I doubt if it will use WfW's built-in 32 bit file/disk
> access.
With a bit of thought/planning you don't have to settle for the 32-bit
file/disk access in Win 3.11 for Wkgrps.
You can use HPFS - *MUCH* better. Just install your apps onto an HPFS
partition - or if they are already installed, back them up, format as
hpfs, then restore them. You also get more disk space as HPFS uses
512byte clusters no matter what the partition size - while FAT uses
minimum 2Kb clusters and more often 4Kb or greater if you have partitions
much over 40Mb. A 350Mb partition formatted as FAT will have 16Kb
clusters. What does this mean? If you have a lot of icons on your disk,
your 1Kb icons are eating up 16Kb each........more than 85% of your disk
is baing wasted. HPFS prevents that nonsense.
If you want real performance, don't waste your time running Winapps on
32-bit file/disk access. Run them on HPFS under OS/2. Much better
(especially for partitions over 80-100Mb).
> > It takes much less memory, the kernel is about 200k smaller for example.
> > It has nicer graphics (color scheme, background bitmaps, icons) too.
> > Some things don't work yet, but the product is quite stable.
>
> I dunno, the one I saw did not look very different. Then again, I saw
> it projected on a screen. The folder icons look the same, and only a
> couple of icons were changed (shredder, drives ...). My own 2.11
> desktop probably looks better, courtesy of icons from the Hobbes CD
> :).
The *real* changes are under the covers - where it counts. You would have
to run OS/2 2.1/2.11 - then install this beta on the same system - to see
just how much better the beta is in terms of overall performance.
It is good.
> Looking forward to a report of performance on a 4Mb machine ...
Unfortunately, I have 4 x 4Mb simms on a DX system, so will have to get
some RAM to test this.
Jeff Kirvin
: >>>Some things don't work yet, but the product is quite stable.
Here it is. (Posted w/out permission, please don't shoot...)
OS/2 Performance Beta Version 2.99 Special Edition for Windows
Readme
_______________________________________________________________
This product is designed for licensed users of
the Microsoft** Windows** Version 3.1 product.
After the installation of this product, you will
be able to run DOS, Windows, and OS/2
applications on the same desktop.
This README contains helpful hints found during
our testing. It is divided into the following
categories:
o General System Considerations
o Visual Enhancements
o Diskette Formatting Problems on ISA/EISA Systems
o ATM Demand Load Setting
o WIN-OS/2 Window Session Fast Load Setting
o VDM Priority Setting
o International Standards Organization (ISO) Fonts
o CD-ROM
o Dual Boot and Boot Manager
o Windows Application Compatibility
o DOS Application Compatibility
o OS/2 Application Compatibility
o DOS and WIN-OS/2 Multimedia Application Compatibility
o Network
o Display adapters
o Audio Adapters
o Printers
o Scanners
o Advanced Power Management (APM)
o Programming Tools
o Serviceability and Diagnostic OS2KRNL.
o Trademarks and Service Marks
NOTE: This copy of the README file contains the latest information.
Use this document instead of the one provided on the OS/2
Diskette Images.
Throughout the documentation provided with this
product, all references to WIN-OS/2* apply to running
your Windows Version 3.1 programs under
the OS/2 Performance Beta version.
A separate README file with additional information for MMPM/2 is contained
with the MMPM/2 program.
GENERAL SYSTEM CONSIDERATIONS
o Your system files might be read-only. As a result,
the system will not update the .INI or .SYS files.
To resolve this problem, change to the directory where your
system files are located. (C:\OS2 is the default.)
Type the following at an OS/2 command prompt:
ATTRIB -r *.ini
press Enter and then type:
ATTRIB -r *.sys
and press Enter.
Shut down your system. When you restart your system, your system
files will be updated.
Note: If you want to selectively install the Serviceability and
Diagnostic Aids, you must be sure to perform the steps above.
o Do not run the Windows Setup program, and do
not change your video configuration for Windows.
o If you experience video corruption (for example,
stacked or missing icons):
- Display the desktop pop-up menu (click mouse
button 2 on the OS/2 desktop background).
- Select Refresh to redraw the desktop.
- If the screen goes blank, press Alt+Esc
(to switch between the applications) to
force repainting of the screen.
o If you have set a password using LOCKUP from the desktop pop up
menu and you have forgotten the password,
1. Add the following statement to the LOCK.RC file located in the
\OS2 directory.
"PM_Lockup" "LockupOptions" ""
This must be placed right above the END statement.
2. Insert the Installation Diskette into drive A and restart your
system.
3. When prompted remove the Installation Diskette and insert
Diskette 1 into drive A.
4. Press Esc to display the OS/2 command prompt and type:
MAKEINI LOCK.RC
and press Enter.
5. When MAKEINI is complete, remove Diskette 1 from drive A and
restart your system.
o DOS Images on the hard disk (VMBs) need to
use the FSFILTER and FSACCESS drivers
provided with this version of OS/2.
FSFILTER and FSACCESS drivers are located in
the \OS2\MDOS directory.
o If you are running CHKDSK without the /F parameter from the command
line on an HPFS partition that also
contains your SWAPPER.DAT file, you might receive a SYS0552
error message. This message can be ignored.
If you are using CHKDSK from the pop-up menu of a drive icon, you might
receive a WARNING message stating "The disk is in use or locked by
another process." If this occurs, CHKDSK will not
display its diagram how the disk is being used.
o If you use the Dual Boot feature and you have an SVGA system set to
1024x768 resolution, the fonts will be too large for the display
when you switch to DOS. To correct this problem do the following
to the WIN.INI file located in the OS2\MDOS\WINOS2
directory. Change the high-resolution font
statement courF.fon, serifF.fon, smallF.fon, sserifF.fon,
and symbolF.fon to low-resolution fonts.
Note: When you switch back to OS/2 from DOS,
you need to return the resolution statement
back to the original high-resolution fonts. Therefore,
you must change the font statement to courE.fon,
serifE.fon, smallE.fon, sserifE.fon, and symbolE.fon,
respectively.
| o When you use the Windows Version 3.1 Control Panel under OS/2,
the changes to the 386 Enhanced mode settings are ignored
and you might receive an error message. Disregard the
error message.
o The Recorder application located in the Accessories
Program Group of your Windows product will not run with
OS/2 Performance Beta Version 2.99. Running this application
can lead to undesirable and unpredictable results.
o If WIN-OS2 window fails to come up on an IBM Thinkpad, make
sure that your CONFIG.SYS file contains the following statment:
DOS=LOW,NOUMB
and the WINOS2 settings has DOS set to LOW and UMB set to OFF.
VISUAL ENHANCEMENTS
-------------------
This version of OS/2 includes visual enhancements and functions:
o A new color palette has been added and includes over 100 colors.
This color palette replaces the color palette that exists in previous
versions of OS/2.
o Fifteen new schemes with bit map support and Icon Text Background color
support has been added. The original schemes can be re-created
by creating another scheme palette with the Scheme Palette Template
located in the Templates folder.
Note: If you use the Clovers scheme your icon text and Active
Title Bar will be unreadable. To fix the problem, you can
change the icon text background to non-transparent and the
Active Title Bar text to white.
o IMPORTANT: If you did not reformat the OS/2 partition, you must
recreate the color and scheme palettes to view the changes made
to these objects. To add the new color palette and scheme palette
to the desktop, follow the instructions provided in the OS/2 User's
Guide to run MAKEINI on the OS2.INI and OS2SYS.INI files, and then
use the following REXX file to create the new objects.
Creating a new Scheme Palette
/* Delete the old Scheme Palette */
call RxFuncAdd 'SysLoadFuncs', 'RexxUtil', 'SysLoadFuncs'
call SysLoadFuncs
SchemeObjectId = "<WP_SCHPAL>"
SchemeObjectLocation = "<WP_CONFIG>"
call SysSetObjectData SchemeObjectId,"NODELETE=NO"
call SysDestroyObject SchemeObjectId
/* Create new Scheme Palette object */
rc = SysCreateObject('WPSchemePalette',,
'Scheme Palette',,
SchemeObjectLocation,,
'NODELETE=YES;AUTOSETUP=YES;OBJECTID='SchemeObjectId,,
'update');
Creating a new Color Palette
/* Delete the old Color Palette */
call RxFuncAdd 'SysLoadFuncs', 'RexxUtil', 'SysLoadFuncs'
call SysLoadFuncs
ColorObjectId = "<WP_CLRPAL>"
ColorObjectLocation = "<WP_CONFIG>"
call SysSetObjectData ColorObjectId,"NODELETE=NO"
call SysDestroyObject ColorObjectId
/* Create new Color Palette object */
rc = SysCreateObject('WPColorPalette',,
'Color Palette',,
ColorObjectLocation,,
'NODELETE=YES;OBJECTID='ColorObjectId,,
'update');
o The scheme palette allows you to edit, manipulate,
and drag bit maps as well as colors and fonts to the desktop.
To edit or preview a bit map:
1. Open "OS/2 System".
2. Open "System Setup".
3. Open the "Scheme Palette".
4. Select a scheme or double-click on its icon or press the Edit
Scheme push button.
5. Click mouse button 2 on the folder icon located near the lower
left corner of the window.
6. Select "Folder Background" from the pop up menu.
7. Select the color or bit map you want to use.
Some of the new schemes added to OS/2 contain new wallpaper bit maps
as well.
o The scheme palette supports a background color for the icon
text. This feature enables you to change the background color
beneath the text, making it easier to see the text when a bit map is
displayed as a folder background.
To edit the icon text background color:
1. Open "OS/2 System".
2. Open "System Setup".
3. Open the "Scheme Palette".
4. Select a scheme or double-click on its icon or press the Edit
Scheme push button.
5. Using mouse button 2, click on "Icon Text" in the preview area
6. Click on the "Edit Color..." push button.
7. Select the color you want for to be displayed behind the
icon text.
8. You can change the icon text background to transparent by
selecting the "Transparent color" checkbox when "Icon Text
Background" is displayed in the "Window Area" listbox.
There are some examples of schemes with transparent icon text
background and some examples with a color that is associated with
the icon text background.
o There are six new tiled bit maps contained in the \os2\bitmap
subdirectory. These can be used for setting the lockup bit map
or setting the background bit map for schemes or folders.
o The Workplace Shell can now participate in Display Device Driver
Palette Management. This can be important if you are using a
high-resolution bit map for your desktop background or the background
for any folder.
To enable palette management for the Workplace Shell,
add the following statement to the CONFIG.SYS file:
SET WORKPLACEPALETTEAWARE=YES
Then restart your system. When it restarts, the Workplace Shell can
respond to palette management requests like any other palette-aware
program. If the focus folder has a 16-color or 256-color background
bit map, its colors are loaded into the hardware palette,
and displayed with the correct colors. All other
visible windows (including other folders containing bit maps) are
displayed with colors which closely match their colors. When
you switch focus to another window, the hardware palette can be
reloaded if that window is part of a palette-aware application
or it is a folder that contains a bit map. When you switch
focus to a window for a non-palette-aware application, or to a
folder which does not contain a bit map, the hardware palette is
not changed.
o You have to run with Workplace Shell Palette Management set to
"OFF" if you are using any programs that are not
palette-aware programs but depend on the default palette being loaded.
o The Settings Notebook pages for Folder or Desktop Background
and Desktop Lockup Background have been combined into a single
screen. This is the same screen used to
edit the Folder Background. This screen now contains a
a preview area, which enables you to view your folder background or
lockup screen bit maps. You can open a folder containing
bit map files and drag a bit map file to the preview area to set
the background bit map for a folder or lockup screen. You can also
open the Color Palette and drag a color to the preview area to
set the background color for a folder or for lockup screen.
There is a new entry in the list of background bit maps: *OS2LOGO.
This entry represents a drawn OS/2 logo. This is the bit map that
was formerly selected as the lockup bit map if you selected (none).
You can now use this bit map for your desktop background, as well
as the lockup bit map.
NOTE: This bit map is drawn each time the folder is opened, or
the system is locked up. It is recommended that you use the
*OS2LOGO for a Lockup background or Desktop background because
it takes some time for the system to redraw the bit map each time
you open a folder.
o The Full screen and Partial screen radio buttons and the Auto-dim
checkbox have been moved from the Desktop Settings Notebook Lockup
page 2 to Lockup page 1.
o The bit maps used for drawing a folder's background are
scaled or tiled separately for each open view of a folder.
The bit maps should be displayed properly no matter how many
views are concurrently open, even if the views have vastly
different shapes.
DISKETTE FORMATTING PROBLEMS ON ISA/EISA SYSTEMS
------------------------------------------------
Symptoms: (one or more of the following)
- Abnormally slow diskette formatting
- FORMAT gives "Track 0 bad" error
- 1.44MB/2.88MB diskette formatted to 720KB
- FORMAT program will not accept /F:1.44MB parameter
The latest diskette drives can detect the position of the hole on
right edge of a diskette to determine the capacity
of a diskette (720KB, 1.44MB, 2.88MB) that is to be formatted.
Use the following information to stop diskette drives from
detecting the diskette capacity if the drive does not use
its capacity detection in a standard way.
AFTER you install OS/2 modify the CONFIG.SYS as follows:
(One 1.44MB drive installed)
BASEDEV=IBM1FLPY.ADD /A:0 /U:0 /!MS
(Two 1.44MB drives installed)
BASEDEV=IBM1FLPY.ADD /A:0 /U;0 /!MS /U:1 /!MS
ATM DEMAND LOAD SETTING
The Adobe Type Manager (ATM) automatically starts
when a WIN-OS/2 session is started. If you do not use the ATM after it is
started, memory is wasted and start-up time is increased. A
WIN-OS/2 setting has been created so you can stop the ATM from being
started automatically. The default setting is "OFF" or disable start
up. If you try to change the setting while the WIN-OS/2 session is running,
ATM is not automatically started. You must shut down and restart the
WIN-OS/2 session before the changed setting becomes active.
WIN-OS/2 WINDOW SESSION FAST LOAD SETTING
To improve the start-up time for a Windows application in a WIN-OS/2
window session, follow these steps:
1. Open OS/2 System.
2. Open System Setup.
3. Open Win-OS/2 Setup.
4. Click on the Win-OS/2 Settings push button.
5. Change the Fast Load setting to "ON".
The steps above start an application which has no other function but to
initiate a common WIN-OS/2 session. The Fast Load setting is checked
during OS/2 startup to determine if the application should be started.
This application is not displayed in the OS/2 Window List. To stop the
application from starting a WIN-OS/2 window session set the Fast Load
setting to "OFF". In this version of OS/2, when the Fast Load setting is
set to "ON", you can stop the application by exiting the Program Manager,
shutting down your system and when prompted, closing the Win-OS/2 session.
VDM PRIORITY SETTING
The task priority of a VDM is constant. A setting was created to
allow you to increase the priority of separate VDM's. The new setting,
VDM_PRIORITY ranges from 0 to 31, in increments of 1, with a default
setting of 0. Modifications to the setting while the VDM is running
does not dynamically modify the priority.
INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS ORGANIZATION (ISO) FONTS
o OS/2 Performance Beta Version 2.99 uses a system proportional
font that is designed to meet the International
Standards Organization (ISO) 9241 standard
and the German DIN 66234 standard when using
certain ISO compliant hardware.
| ISO fonts cause some text strings
to be clipped. If you do not want to use
ISO compliant fonts, modify the OS2.INI
file to install fonts that are not ISO
compliant. Font changes made in the
OS2.INI file are global across all
applications. If you have REXX installed,
you can type the following information into
a CMD file and use it to change the font.
/* */
call RxFuncAdd "SysIni", "RexxUtil", "SysIni"
AppName = "PM_SystemFonts"
KeyName = "DefaultFont"
FontName = "10.System Proportional Non-ISO"
call SysIni "USER", AppName, KeyName, FontName||"0"x
exit
After the file has been run, shutdown and
restart the system.
CD-ROM
o The Check disk option for a CD-ROM object
will not display information about the
CD-ROM. To obtain information about the
CD-ROM:
1. Point to the CD-ROM drive object.
2. Click mouse button 2.
3. Select the arrow to the right of Open.
4. Select Details view.
DUAL BOOT AND BOOT MANAGER
o If you use the Dual Boot or Boot Manager feature to switch to DOS,
and you install a Windows application that updates the AUTOEXEC.BAT or
the CONFIG.SYS file, you must migrate the application after you switch
back to the OS/2 operating system. You must also update the OS/2
versions of AUTOEXEC.BAT and CONFIG.SYS to have statements similar to
those in the Windows** version of these files.
NOTE: Users of DOS 5.0 and 6.3 must add the following line to the
AUTOEXEC.BAT file to display the DOSSHELL.
SET COMSPEC=C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM
This statement must be placed just above the C:\DOS\DOSHELL
statement.
o Added support for Boot Manager exists on a disk other than
Disk 1. To delete and re-install the Boot
Manager, exit FDISK after you delete the
Boot Manager and re-start FDISK to install Boot Manager again.
(This is true even if you are going to place it in the same
partition.) You will have to re-enter the partition
names.
WINDOWS APPLICATION COMPATIBILITY
---------------------------------
o The original WIN-OS/2* color scheme was added
to the list of available color schemes in
the WIN-OS/2 color panel. If you change color
schemes and would like to return to the original
color scheme, select WIN-OS/2 Original.
o Windows scanning programs should be run in
a WIN-OS/2 full-screen session to avoid
video corruption.
o To ensure the integrity of 16-color bit
maps on SVGA, XGA, and 8514 systems, run
Microsoft Paint Brush** in a WIN-OS/2
full-screen session.
o Some messages encountered in a WIN-OS/2
window session request that you select
either Ignore or Close, however the only
options are Ignore and OK. Select OK
instead of Close.
o If you are using a WIN-OS/2 window or
full-screen session, an OS/2 Presentation
Manager session, and a DOS full-screen session,
Alt+Esc might not sequence through all of
the windows correctly. Alt+Esc might switch
to the WIN-OS/2 session every other time or the
DOS full-screen session might never be
displayed.
To avoid this problem, press Ctrl+Esc or
press mouse buttons 1 and 2 at the same
time to display the Window List then select
the desired session.
o If you are in a full-screen WIN-OS/2
session and you encounter a problem where
transparent desktop icons appear over open
windows, minimize or maximize the window to
force repainting.
o During installation of the Windows 3.1 SDK,
a message is displayed stating that the
installation program cannot find
KRNL286.EXE or KRNL386.EXE. Ignore the
message and continue installation. The SDK
will function normally.
| o If you installed touch-screen support, before you can use Windows,
| you must copy TOUCH.DRV from the \SYSTEM directory of the drive
| where you have OS/2 installed to the \SYSTEM subdirectory within the
| directory where you have Windows installed.
o If you are using the Winsleuth Gold
hardware diagnostics program:
- Do not run Chip test (RAM test
program). Chip test attempts to lock
hardware interrupts. OS/2 Performance Beta
does not allow programs to lock hardware
interrupts.
- When the video mode hardware test
switches from character to graphics
mode, a "suspended" message might
appear. If the message appears, Select
Full-screen from the Sessions System
menu. Testing will resume.
Windows Application Notes:
Access Dr. Watson** Hollywood** WinRoach**
------------------------------------------
Run in a WIN-OS/2 full-screen session.
AmiPro** 2.0 and 3.0
--------------------
Equation symbols might be incorrect after the following
printer drivers are installed.
- Canon** BubbleJet
- HP DeskJet**
- HP LaserJet II
- HP LaserJet III
- HP Plotter
ATM fonts
---------
WIN-OS/2 includes ATM fonts Version 2.5. If
you were using a previous version of ATM fonts
with your Windows programs, you can upgrade to
the new ATM fonts provided by WIN-OS/2. See
Chapter 19, "Adobe Type Manager for WIN-OS/2",
in the "OS/2 2.1 Using the Operating System"
book for instructions.
You must set the WIN_ATM WIN-OS/2 setting
to "ON" to enable ATM font support.
Borland Turbo and Pascal debugger
----------------------------------
Run in a full-screen session.
CorelDRAW 2.0
-------------
Install from a DOS or OS/2 session.
Facelift** Fonts
----------------
Modify the SYSTEM.INI file after the fonts are
installed:
1. Edit the SYSTEM.INI file in the directory where
your Windows files reside.
2. Change the SDISPLAY.DRV= line to SDISPLAY.ORG=.
3. Copy the DISPLAY.DRV= line to the next line in
the file. Add an "S" to the beginning of the
new (copied) line.
4. Change the FDISPLAY.DRV= line to FDISPLAY.ORG=.
5. Copy the DISPLAY.DRV= line to the next line in
the file. Add an "F" to the beginning of the
new (copied) line.
6. Save and exit the file.
7. Restart WIN-OS/2.
FormBase** 1.1
--------------
When you install FormBase, do not choose
to modify the CONFIG.SYS file. Modifying
the CONFIG.SYS file damages the integrity
of the file and your system.
FoxPro** 2.5
------------
Install using a WIN-OS/2 Enhanced-compatibility
mode session, but run in a WIN-OS/2
standard-mode session
FrameMaker**
------------
Use a mouse to select table cells.
Lotus Freelance Graphics**
--------------------------
Run the Tutorial in a WIN-OS/2 full-screen
session.
If you are using Freelance in a WIN-OS/2
window, you might get incorrect background
color when viewing a thumbnail of a template.
This will not affect the running of the
application.
Lotus Freelance Graphics** 2.0
------------------------------
If you are running Lotus Freelance Graphics 2.0
on any machine with an Intel** 386 16Mhz processor it is
recommended that you use a Math Coprocessor.
Lotus** Improv 2.0 for Windows
----------------------------
Must be installed with WIN-OS/2 running in
enhanced mode.
Mathematica** 2.2
-----------------
Must be run in a WIN-OS/2 window session.
Microsoft Windows Printing System
---------------------------------
The OS/2 spooler must be disabled. If you are
using a parallel printer, direct the output of
the printer to LPT1 instead of LPT1.OS2.
Norton Desktop 2.0
------------------
Run in a WIN-OS/2 full-screen standard-mode session.
Powerpoint** 3.0
----------------
If you are displaying the DROPBXV.PPT and
GRIDWRVK.PPT demo slides in 640x480x256, you
might see small horizontal line corruption.
If you are using a WIN-OS/2 window, you might
get incorrect background color when viewing a
thumbnail of a template. This will not affect
the running of the application.
Video for Windows
-----------------
Run in a full-screen session.
If you configure video animation to run full-screen
in Video playback, Deselect Skip video frames if
behind, to eliminate any corruption of the video
during play.
Windows** Version 3.1 with Pen Extensions
-----------------------------------------
Not supported.
WindowWorks**
-------------
Install in a WIN-OS/2 full-screen session.
WinTach**
---------
Run this application in a WIN-OS/2 full-screen session.
DOS APPLICATION COMPATIBILITY
-----------------------------
o Use OS/2 system utilities. DOS system
utilities might not recognize the extended
attributes associated with a file.
o OS/2 provides integral disk caching and
memory optimization functions. Use of the
equivalent functions that are provided with
MS-DOS 6.0 is not necessary and may produce
errors.
o To display the DOS bar in a DOS
full-screen or window session, add
$i to the PROMPT statement in the
AUTOEXEC.BAT file. For example, type:
PROMPT $i$p$g
Save the modified AUTOEXEC.BAT file.
Shut down your system, then restart
your system. (Press and hold the
Ctrl+Alt+Del keys to restart your system.)
o If your application uses its own DOS Protect
Mode Interface (DPMI), set the DPMI_DOS_API
DOS setting to ENABLED. Example applications
include:
- Microsoft C/C++ 7.0 Linker
- Borland** C
- C++**
- Turbo C**
- Paradox**
NOTE:
If you are using Microsoft C/C++ 7.0 Linker, configure
the program object's DOS_SETTINGs with DPMI_DOS_API=ENABLED.
Also, modify the AUTOEXEC.BAT being used for the session
so that the Microsoft \C700\BIN directory is searched first.
For example:
PATH X:\C700\BIN;\C:\OS2;C:\OS2\MDOS;C:\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2;C:\;
o It is not necessary to run SHARE.EXE in a DOS session.
OS/2's DOS emulation provides SHARE.EXE compatible to that which
comes with DOS versions 5.x and 6.x.
DOS Application Notes:
DOS Games
---------
For performance reasons, play in a DOS
full-screen session. Change the DOS setting,
VIDEO_8514A_XGA_IOTRAP to OFF. For more
information about DOS settings, refer to the
Master Help Index.
Fotoman**
---------
If you have problems running Fotoman, set the
DOS COM_DIRECT_ACCESS setting ON.
Paradox V4.0
-------------
If you have problems running Paradox V4.0
change the DOS setting DPMI_DOS_API = ENABLE.
Wayne Gretzky's Hockey Game
---------------------------
Not supported.
Wing Commander** II
-------------------
Set HW_TIMER to OFF.
WordPerfect V6.0
-----------------
If you have problems running WordPerfect V6.0
change the DOS setting DOS_FILES = >99.
Terminator game
---------------
Must use a joystick.
Maxis Sim City 2000 for DOS
---------------------------
Under the Program tab for the program object, set the
Optional Parameters to NO_MEM_CHK. Under the Session Tab,
select the DOS_SETTINGS button and set DPMI_MEMORY_LIMIT to 8.
Microsoft MSCDEX
----------------
Change the DOS INT_DURING_IO setting to ON.
Intel** SatisFAXtion**
----------------------
Must be run in a specific DOS session, unless
you do the following before you install the program:
1. Make a copy of your AUTOEXEC.BAT file and
name it AUTOEXEC.FAX.
2. Install the program.
3. Rename the AUTOEXEC.BAT file FAX.BAT.
4. Rename the AUTOEXEC.FAX file AUTOEXEC.BAT.
5. Make a program object for the SatisFAXtion
program.
6. Change the value of the DOS_AUTOEXEC
setting for the object to FAX.BAT.
7. Save and exit the Settings notebook.
OS/2 APPLICATION COMPATIBILITY
------------------------------
Do not run an OS/2 screen saver and a Windows screen saver
or multiple Windows screen savers at the same time.
OS/2 Application Notes:
Communication Manager/2
-----------------------
When used with Host Graphics support (HGINST)
you might experience shutdown problems.
Ensure that the following Graphical Data
Display Manager (GDDM) fixes have been
applied to the host system:
UN36882 - MVS
UN38883 - VM/SP
UN38884 - VM/XA SP
UN38885 - DOS/VSE
Netview DM/2 (NVDM/2)
---------------------
If you are using the CID method of
installation, you will need an updated version
of the LAPSCID.DLL file. This file is
available as LAPDLL.ZIP on the CompuServe
OS2SUPPORT forum, Lib #17 and the OS2BBS
on TALKLINK.
Pen for OS/2
------------
If this version of OS/2 is installed over a system with Pen for OS/2 and
the CONFIG.SYS is migrated, the pen device might not work after you
restart your system. To correct this, you must edit the CONFIG.SYS
file.
DEVICE=(path)\EMI.SYS
DEVICE=(path)\XXX.SYS (where xxx is the name of the pen device)
DEVICE=(path)\EIQO2.SYS
The above three lines should be in the order shown and must be in the
CONFIG.SYS between the following 2 lines:
DEVICE=(path)\POINTDD.SYS
DEVICE=(path)\MOUSE.SYS
If you receive the following message when installing or reinstalling
Pen for OS/2:
SYS1059: The system cannot execute the specified program.,
you must apply a fix to the pen installation program.
1.) Do a selective installation of OS/2 to install the PATCH utilities
a.) Select "OS/2 system".
b.) Select "System Setup".
c.) Select "Selective Install"
d.) Select the "OK" push button on the "System Configuration" screen.
e.) Select Seviceability and Diagnostics Aids
f.) Select the Install push button on the "OS/2 Setup and Installation"
screen and follow the instructions.
2.) To fix the Pen for OS/2 installation program folow these steps:
a.) If you are reinstalling Pen for OS/2:
1. Copy the PEN.DAT file located on DISK12 to the drive and
directory where you have Pen for OS/2 installed.
2. Change to the drive and directory where you have Pen for OS/2
installed and at an OS/2 command prompt, type:
PATCH PEN.DAT /A
and press Enter.
b.) If you are installing Pen for OS/2 for the first time:
1. Copy the PEN.DAT file located on DISK12 to the PEN for OS/2
Diskette 1.
2. Insert the Pen for OS/2 Diskette 1 into drive A.
3. From an OS/2 command prompt, switch to drive A,
and type:
PATCH PEN.DAT /A
and press Enter.
c.) A message is displayed confirming that the fix has been applied.
3.) Install Pen for OS/2
RUMBA/400 for OS/2
------------------
If you use RUMBA/400 for OS/2, you might have a more recent
version of the MIRRORS.DLL file, located in the \OS2\DLL directory.
The file currently shipped with OS/2 2.11 is from Micrografx
ToolKit Ver. 3.01, ship level A51 dated 11/16/93. Before you
begin installing this version of the operating system, you must
back up your current MIRRORS.DLL file. After you install this
version of the operating system, you can replace the OS/2 2.11
level of MIRRORS.DLL with the backed up copy you previously created.
WordPerfect** 5.2
-----------------
If this application is installed on your system
and you reinstall OS/2, do the following:
1. Change to the directory that contains WordPerfect.
2. Type:
INSTALL /WPS
The WordPerfect application is now updated. You need
to shut down and restart your system for these changes
to take effect.
IBM LAN Server 3.0 Remote Installation
Program Load (RIPL)
----------------------------------------------
An updated version from version 3.0 is needed to
run with OS/2 Performance Beta. Use the diskette
image that is available as 21SERIPL.ZIP on the
CompuServe OS2SUPPORT forum, Lib #17 or on the
OS2BBS on TALKLINK to run RIPL with this version of
OS/2.
IBM LAN Server DLR 2.0, 3.0
---------------------------
When running WIN-OS/2 in a VMboot environment, with DOS
and IBM LAN Server DOS LAN Requester 2.0 or 3.0, the
logoff option causes the WIN-OS/2 session to freeze.
This problem occurs when network logon is performed
prior to entering WIN-OS/2. To resolve the problem:
- Do not use the network logoff in WIN-OS/2 when running
LAN Server DOS LAN Requester 2.0 or 3.0.
DOS AND WIN-OS/2 MULTIMEDIA APPLICATION COMPATIBILITY
-----------------------------------------------------
o The following WIN-OS/2 and DOS Settings
should be used for Multimedia applications:
DOS/WIN INT_DURING_IO ON
DOS/WIN HW_TIMER ON
WIN VIDEO_SWITCH_NOTIFICATION ON
WIN VIDEO_8514A_XGA_IOTRAP OFF
DOS/WIN VIDEO_RETRACE_EMULATION OFF
DOS DPMI_MEMORY_LIMIT 8
Applications Notes:
Action!** 2.0
-------------
Run in a WIN-OS/2 full-screen session. Change the
following line in the AUTOEXEC.BAT file to:
SET TEMP=C:\
Animation Works** 1.0
---------------------
Run in 1024x768 resolution.
IconAuthor** 4.0
----------------
If you are running the demo for this program,
you must exit and reenter the WIN-OS/2 session
before running the actual application.
Linkway** Live 1.0 (Tool Series)
--------------------------------
Use the following DOS setting to make the demo
run properly:
DOS_RMSIZE=576
MIDI
----
Make sure that the MIDI mapper and channels (in the Control
Panel) is properly set to the sound adapter.
Nautilus** 1.6 and 1.76
-----------------------
Run in a WIN-OS/2 full-screen session.
NETWORK
o The Workplace Shell login is not compatible
with Novell** NetWare** 4.0 Directory Services
and should be disabled unless you are using the
NetWare 4.0 Bindery Compatibility mode. To
disable the login:
1. Edit the CONFIG.SYS file.
2. Remove the CONNECTIONS option from SET
AUTOSTART.
3. Save and exit the CONFIG.SYS file.
4. Restart the system to activate the
changes.
o You might experience problems with WIN-OS/2 if you are using
Novell Netware Requester 2.0 on this version
of OS/2. To correct the problems,
upgrade to Novell Netware Requester for OS/2 Version 2.1.
o If you are using the NetWare Requester
version 2.01, (ships with NetWare 4.0) but
have no NetWare 4.0 servers, you can
increase the speed of the login process by
turning the Directory Services off. To
turn the services off:
1. Edit NET.CFG file in the root directory
of the boot drive.
2. Add Directory Services Off to the file.
3. Save and exit the file.
o Novell NetWare Requester 2.0 and 2.01
programs NMPIPE.SYS, NPSERVER.SYS, and
NPDAEMON.EXE require the following
information to be added to the OS2VER file.
To add this information to the file:
1. At an OS/2 command prompt,
type:
ATTRIB -h -r -s OS2VER
2. Edit the OS2VER file in the root
directory of the boot drive.
3. Type the following information in the
file:
20=NMPIPE.SYS
20=NPSERVER.SYS
20=NPDAEMON.EXE
4. Save and exit the file.
5. Type ATTRIB +h +r +s OS2VER
o If you are using FFST/2 (for example, if
you enable the FFST/2 feature when
installing Communications Manager/2 or Data
Base Manager/2), REM out the
"RUN=...\EPW.EXE" statement in your
CONFIG.SYS file. To utilize FFST/2
technology, add a "DETACH EPW.EXE" as the
first statement in your STARTUP.CMD file.
o NetWare Client for OS/2 uses a default frame type of 802.2
on Ethernet networks. This is a change from the previous
default frame type of 802.3. Some routers do not support
Ethernet 802.2 frame types. If you are having difficulty
connecting to your server, add 802.2 Ethernet frame support
at the server, and ensure your router has the latest revision
of software.
o When using NetWare Client version 2.1 for OS/2,
load NETX.EXE into both global and private DOS
sessions. The NetWare Client installation program can modify
AUTOEXEC.BAT and any other DOS_AUTOEXEC files you specify.
You must also change the DOS_LASTDRIVE setting for each DOS
session to the last local drive on your system.
o The Virtual Loadable Module (VLM) version of the NetWare
DOS Client kit can be run in a DOS 5.X or 6.X VMB session under
OS/2 in either global or private mode. Use DOSVIPX to allow
sharing of the network adapter. This allows limited access
to NetWare 4.0x Directory Services in a DOS VMB session.
o The Novell file system fails to recognize LPT4 through LPT9
print devices and creates a disk full file instead. Copy or
pipe to \DEV\LPTx might function as a workaround or drag and drop
using the Workplace Shell.
o Pressing Ctrl-C in a NetWare program, running in a DOS session
might cause a SYS3175 error and the session to fail. The
application will end properly. If you still require a session,
start a new one.
o Using a wildcard with the ATTRIB command can produce erratic
results. Use NDIR or FLAG instead.
o WIN-OS/2 File Manager and some other programs might show inaccurate
drive information when running in a private NetWare session.
Drives that are mapped in global or OS/2 sessions might appear
as local drives. You can remap these drives to other volumes
or directories without affecting the global session mappings.
NOVELL DOS REQUESTER
There are three ways to use Novell DOS Requester with OS/2.
o VM Boot from Drive A
If you install OS/2 Performance Beta on drive C and
you have installed it over a Novell DOS Requester,
you can use the requester after OS/2 is installed
by creating a VM Boot Diskette and selecting the
"Boot from Drive A" object on your desktop. To do this:
1. Create a DOS Bootable Diskette with a version of DOS
later than 3.20.
2. Make the following changes to the CONFIG.SYS file:
DEVICE=A:\FSFILTER.SYS
A:\HIMEM.SYS
A:\EMM386.SYS
FILES=60
BUFFERS=30
SHELL=A:\COMMAND.COM /E:2000 /P
LASTDRIVE=last physical drive on your system
3. Copy the files from the OS/2 directory to the DOS
directory.
4. Insert the DOS Diskette into Drive A.
5. Select DOS from Drive A to start your Novell DOS
Requester.
o Boot Manager from Drive C
If OS/2 Performannce Beta is installed on a logical drive,
(for example, drive D), then DOS, Windows Version 3.1, and
Novell DOS Requester will start from drive C.
Follow these steps:
1. Copy D:\OS2\MDOS\FSFILTER.SYS to C.
2. Make the following changes to the CONFIG.SYS file:
DEVICE=C:\FSFILTER.SYS
DEVICE=D:\OS2\MDOS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=D:\OS2\MDOS\EMM386.SYS
FILES=60
BUFFERS=30
SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM /E:2000 /P
LASTDRIVE=last physical drive on your system
3. Make the following changes to the AUTOEXEC.BAT file:
@ECHO OFF
PROMPT $P$G
PATH C:\WIN31;C:\DOS;C:\NETWARE
C:\NETWARE\LSL.COM
C:\NETWARE\TOKEN.COM
C:\NETWARE\IPXODI.COM
C:\NETWARE\NETX.EXE
4. Restart your system with OS/2.
5. Select OS/2 System.
6. Select the Command Prompts folder.
7. Make a copy of the DOS from Drive A
object that is located in the Command Prompts folder.
For information about copying an object,
refer to the "OS/2 2.1 Using the
Operating System" book.
8. Point to the copy of the DOS From Drive A object.
9. Click mouse button 2.
10. Select the arrow to the right of Open.
11. Select Settings.
12. Select the Session tab.
13. Select DOS Settings.
14. Select DOS_STARTUP_DRIVE.
15. Type C: in the Value field.
16. Select Save.
17. Double-click on the title-bar icon to
close the notebook.
18. Select DOS from Drive C to start Boot
Manager.
o Dual Boot
If you install this version of OS/2 on drive C
and you have Novell DOS Requester on your workstation,
you can use the Dual Boot feature of OS/2 to switch to DOS
and run the requester. Select the
Dual Boot object in the Command Prompts folder to start
DOS from drive C. DOS has full network support.
Novell DOS Requester must be run in either a DOS
or WIN-OS/2 session. The LAN adapter cannot be
shared with any other application such as Communications
Manager that attempts to utilize the LAN adapter. Using the NetWare
Requester for the OS/2 operating system might remove some of the
limitations of this configuration.
UPGRADING TO NETWARE REQUESTER FOR OS/2
Install NetWare Requester for OS/2 2.1 following the
manufacturer's directions. This product provides
network support for DOS, OS/2, and Windows Version 3.1.
To make the Windows program aware of the network:
1. Select the Windows Setup object located in the
Main folder.
2. Select Options.
3. Select Change System Settings.
4. Select Novell NetWare (DOS Version 3.21 and higher).
5. Insert the Windows diskette number 2 when prompted.
6. Select Restart Windows.
A network object appears in the Windows Control Panel.
7. Select the Network object.
DISPLAY ADAPTERS (IMAGE, SVGA, XGA, 8514)
o The OS/2 operating system will experience
video problems similar to those observed in
a DOS environment. These problems are due
to the failure of a BIOS video mode set.
An example of this problem is the video
image on an ALR** Modular PS with a
Flexview** 2x SVGA display fails to occupy
the entire screen in 1024 x 768 mode.
o If you are using an LCD display and have
difficulty locating the mouse pointer on
the screen, you can increase the size of
the pointer if you are using 640x480
resolution. To change the size of the
pointer (if you have REXX installed):
1. Use an editor to create a file called
LARGE.CMD.
2. Add the following information to the
file.
/* LARGE.CMD Set VGA pointers to large */
/* (c) Copyright IBM Corp. 1992, All rights reserved */
call RxFuncAdd "SysIni", "RexxUtil", "SysIni"
call SysIni "USER", "PM_IBMVGA", "CURSOR_SIZE", "1"
say Result
exit
3. Save and exit the file.
4. At an OS/2 command prompt, type "LARGE"
and press Enter.
This program will increase the size of the
cursor. To force a standard size pointer,
replace the "1" in the program with a "2".
To let the system select the size of the
pointer, replace the "1" in the program
with a "0".
o Users of the NCR** Safari notebook, SSL/25,
should modify the following information in
the CONFIG.SYS file on their startup drive
to allow video register shadowing to be
processed correctly in OS/2 Performance Beta.
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VVGA.SYS
to
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VSVGA.SYS
o Systems with Image Adapters running in
dual-display modes will lose DOS window
support after a DOS full-screen or OS/2
full-screen session has been invoked. The
system must be restarted to reinstate the
DOS window environment. The problem can be
avoided by turning off the dual display
mode under the Image Adapter setup.
S3 FUNCTIONAL RESTRICTIONS
--------------------------
o After Dark** for Windows images that move from left to right do
not perform properly at 640x480x16M resolution.
o To avoid a General Protection fault while loading Ventura
Publisher** for Windows, be sure it is in one of the 256-color
resolutions.
o To avoid a trap in Lotus** 1-2-3** for OS/2, do not attempt to run
the program at 16.7 million colors.
o WordPerfect** 5.1 and 5.2 for Windows produce a General Protection
fault when the "Print Preview" option is selected while you
are using 800x600x64K or 600x480x16 million color mode.
o The software motion video feature will take advantage of a 1MB
aperture on video adapters and systems where it is available to
improve the performance of video playback in 64K-color modes.
For those systems with nonstandard locations, the actual
physical address of the aperture must be provided in
the following CONFIG.SYS statement:
SET VIDEO_APERTURE=xxxh
where "xxx" is a hexadecimal value in units of 1MB, representing
the actual physical address to map to the aperture. For example,
the IBM PS/ValuePoint systems must have the statement:
SET VIDEO_APERTURE=400h
to use a physical address at 1GB.
NOTE: If you are using the 256-color mode and your desktop
appears to be darker than other color modes, you must edit the
SVGADATA.PMI file located in the \OS2 directory.
Change the following statement from:
HI-COLOR DAC by ....
to:
HI-COLOR DAC by unknown
To make the changes effective, you must restart your system.
ATTENTION IBM VALUEPOINT USERS:
-------------------------------
You might encounter a blank screen while switching from one window to
another when using any one of the following:
PS/ValuePoint Display Models: 6314 6317 6319
PS/ValuePoint Computer Models: 6382 6384 6387
To correct or avoid this problem, you MUST do the following:
1. Make sure that the flash EEPROM level of your system is 61 or later.
To check the EEPROM level:
a. Begin the Configuration Utility program by turning the system off
and then on again.
b. During the memory count, press F1. (The memory count appears in
the upper left corner of the screen as numbers followed by KB.)
c. When the Configuration Utility screen appears, look for the Flash
EEPROM Revision Level.
d. The fifth and sixth characters in the Flash EEPROM Revision Level
represent the actual revision level.
e. If the revision level is less than 61, you must install the
ValuePoint Flash BIOS update.
To get the required ValuePoint Flash BIOS update do the following:
f. Access the IBM PC Company Bulletin Board System (1-919-517-0001),
then download the VP2FL61A.DSK file, which is the Flash BIOS
Update Level 61.
If you do not have access to a modem, you can call the IBM Help
Center (1-800-772-2227) and request this update on diskette.
2. You must install both the flash update (if the revision level is less
than 61) and the S3 Video Driver Update Package.
SVGA CONSIDERATIONS
o The Western Digital** 90C31 SVGA chipset
will have video problems when Windows 3.1
applications are run.
o If you are using a ZEOS** system with
Speedstar** VGA, you must run the VMODE
utility supplied with the system to
configure the display during the display
driver installation.
o Zenith Data Systems** with Headland HT208
and Hewlett Packard** systems with HT209,
do not support high resolution modes even
though you can successfully set these modes
and install high resolution drivers. If a
high resolution mode is used, a white
half-screen will be displayed. To correct
this problem, use Selective Install to install VGA.
o If you have a Sigma Legend** display
adapter you might experience minor video
corruption on the desktop when you switch
between the desktop and DOS if they are
running in different modes. This can be
corrected by using the DOS utility that is
packaged with this display adapter to set the
DOS session to the same mode as the
desktop.
XGA CONSIDERATIONS
o If you are using a dual display system with
XGA as the primary display and VGA as the
secondary display, you might see some minor
corruption when the XGA display is set to a
resolution with 65536 colors. This
corruption will be on the display that does
not have focus and will not interfere with
the operation of the system.
o On dual display configurations with XGA-2
as the primary display and VGA as the
secondary display, the DOS full-screen
session might be corrupted if a Windows**
application is started in a window session.
To recover from this situation, shutdown
and restart the system.
o If you are using Dual Boot with an XGA-2
adapter, you must modify the CONFIG.DOS
file:
1. Edit the \OS2\SYSTEM\CONFIG.DOS file.
2. Locate the line
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM 2048
X=nnnn-nnnn
3. Change nnnn-nnnn to C000-CFFF.
4. Save and exit the file.
o On IBM P75 systems, there might be some
corruption on the screen whenever several
icons are selected and moved together.
This corruption can be eliminated by
clicking mouse button 2 to bring up the
pop-up menu; then selecting Sort.
o An IBM P75 system with an external monitor
attached might only have the 640x480x16
resolution selection on the the System
Settings Screen page. If the external
monitor is capable of displaying higher
resolutions, use the P75 reference diskette
to disable the built-in plasma display.
o If you are using an XGA system, the hash
lines around the icons of open applications
might change color unexpectedly. This does
not interfere with the operation of the
system.
o If you are using an XGA system, extra lines
might appear on the face of the OS/2 System
Clock between the quarter (:15) and half
(:30) hour. These lines do not interfere
with the operation of the clock.
o If you run VGA DOS graphics applications
on the OS/2 desktop and your system does not have VGA support,
your desktop might be corrupted.
8514 CONSIDERATIONS
o If you are using the 1MB version of an
ATI** Graphics Ultra** Pro adapter, the VGA
memory must be set to SHARED to work
properly with the OS/2 8514 display driver.
This might cause some DOS applications
running in the background to corrupt the
desktop. To correct this problem, you must
upgrade to the 2MB version of the Graphics
Ultra Pro and set the VGA memory to 256K or
greater.
NOTE: In the "OS/2 Installation Guide", it
states that the ATI Graphics Ultra Pro must
be configured to IBM DEFAULT for the
640x480 display type. This setting might
be referred to as 60Hz rather than IBM
DEFAULT.
o If you are using a system with an 8514
adapter with Windows applications running
in a WIN-OS/2 window session in separate
VDMs, video corruption might occur in
bitmaps when you cut and paste between
applications.
o After you start a WIN-OS/2 window session,
256 color bitmaps might become discolored
due to the sharing of the 256 color
palette. This should not affect the
running of the applications.
o Selecting windows in Mathematica might not
bring focus to the proper window.
AUDIO ADAPTERS
Audio support in WIN-OS/2 and DOS sessions is
dependent on installed drivers. You should
install the audio adapter driver that came with
your audio adapter. When installing audio
support for WIN-OS/2, be sure to install both
DOS and Windows device drivers. Configure
both drivers to use the same interrupt level and
DMA channel. For additional audio information,
refer to the README file located in the \MMOS2
directory.
o MMPM/2 installs Sound Blaster** support for
OS/2 only, not WIN-OS/2 or DOS.
o The following drivers are available with
the Audio Capture and Playback Adapter*
(ACPA):
- ACPADD.SYS
- ACPADD2.SYS
- ACPAK12.SYS
- ACPA.DRV
The latest updates are available on the IBM
Bulletin Board Service.
o MMPM/2 installs ACPA support for OS/2 only,
not WIN-OS/2 or DOS.
There are two ways to get DOS ACPA support
in DOS sessions:
1. Edit the CONFIG.SYS file.
2. Add DEVICE=C:\ACPAK12.SYS
3. Save and exit the CONFIG.SYS file.
4. Copy the ACPAK12.SYS file to the C:\
directory.
5. Restart the system to activate the
changes.
Or
1. Point to the DOS full-screen or window
object.
2. Click mouse button 2.
3. Select the arrow to the right of Open.
4. Select Settings.
5. Select the Session tab.
6. Select DOS Settings.
7. Select DOS_DEVICE.
8. Type C:\ACPAK12.SYS in the Value field.
9. Select Save.
10. Double-click on the title-bar icon to
close the notebook.
11. Copy the ACPAK12.SYS file to the C:\
directory.
To install WIN-OS/2 ACPA support:
1. Access the Control Panel in WIN-OS/2
Main.
2. Select Drivers.
3. Select Add.
4. Select Unlisted or Updated Drivers.
5. Select OK.
6. Insert the diskette containing the ACPA
driver into drive A.
7. Type A:
8. Select OK.
9. When the Add Unlisted or Updated Driver screen
is displayed, select the M-Audio sound driver.
10. Select OK.
11. When the IBM ACPA Driver Setup screen is displayed,
select Proper Input Source.
DEFAULT IS MIC NORMAL
Select OK.
12. Select Restart Now.
13. Open WIN-OS/2 session.
14. Select the Control Panel in WIN-OS/2 Main.
15. Select MIDI Mapper.
16. Select the down arrow for Name.
17. Select Extended MIDI for ACPA.
18. Select Edit.
19. Select Yes.
20. Select port name for all 16 SRC channels
to be IBM M-Audio MIDI SYNTH.
21. Select OK.
22. Select Yes.
23. Select Close.
24. Close the WIN-OS/2 session.
o To add WIN-OS/2 Sound Blaster support:
1. Install the DOS device driver following
the instructions that came with the
adapter. Use an OS/2 DOS session for
the install.
2. Install the Windows driver.
3. When prompted, type:
\OS2\MDOS\WINOS2
and press Enter.
Your SYSTEM.INI file will be updated.
NOTE: Be sure to use the same I/O
address, interrupt, and DMA settings
used during installation of the DOS drivers.
PRINTERS
o If you are using the HP** LaserJet**
printer driver, some complex images might
not print correctly when LaserJet
performance options are enabled. If you
experience incorrect output or degraded
printer performance, return the performance
options to the disabled state. To change
the performance options:
1. Point to the printer object.
2. Click mouse button 2.
3. Select the arrow to the right of Open.
4. Select Settings.
5. Select the Printer driver tab.
6. Select Job properties.
7. Change the performance options to their
default settings.
8. Double-click on the title-bar icon to
close the notebook.
o If you experience problems while
printing bitmaps from an application
while using the PostScript printer
driver, Select the Printer-specific
format option on the Queue options page
in the Settings notebook of your
printer object.
SCANNERS
If you have a Logitech hand scanner on an
AT bus computer, run the scanner at the
100, 200, or 300 DPI setting.
ADVANCED POWER MANAGEMENT SUPPORT FOR PORTABLE COMPUTERS
o This version of OS/2 includes APM support that was not available
for the original OS/2 2.1 release. Laptop computers
with 32-bit protect-mode APM are now
supported. Refer to README.INS for additional
information on APM support.
Laptop computers with the following are compatible with
OS/2 for Windows Advanced Power Management:
o 16-bit protect-mode APM in the BIOS
o 32-bit protect-mode APM
Laptop computers that have no APM support in BIOS or
have only real-mode APM support are not compatible with OS/2
for Windows Advanced Power Management.
The DOS utility program APMHERE, which is available
on the IBM BBS, can quickly determine whether your
computer has Advanced Power Management support in
conformance with the APM 1.0 Specification (dated 1/91).
Systems with BIOS dates before January 1991 will
not have the protect-mode APM support in their BIOS.
LAPTOP COMPUTERS WITH APM SUPPORT
----------------------------------
The table that follows lists the laptop computers that
have Advanced Power Management support. (This list
represents only systems tested as of January 27, 1994.)
MANUFACTURER MODEL COMMENTS
----------------------------------------------------
Acer AcerNote 730 BIOS information
displayed
on start up:
PhoenixBIOS(TM) A486
Version 1.03 R1.0
Acer AcerNote 750
AST Research PowerExec 4/25SL Perform the
Inc. Color Plus following
486SL/25 Active steps:
Matrix Color
1. Press FN F1
keys to get
BIO access
2. Select
Power
Management.
3. Click on
Power
Management
Section
4. Follow the
Characterize
the Battery
instructions
COMPAQ 4/25
COMPAQ CONTURA 4/25
Monochrome, VGA
COMPAQ CONTURA 4/25C
486SL/25 Active
Matrix
COMPAQ CONTURA 4/25cx See NOTE 1.
COMPUDYNE 4SL/25 BIOS information
SubNOTEBOOK displayed
on start up:
PhoenixBIOS(TM) LAP486SL
Version 1.03
PhoenixMISER(TM) 486L v2.0
80486SL BIOS
Version 1.11 5/28/93
Gateway 2000 ColorBook
486SX/25
486SX/25 Dual
Scan Color
Gateway 2000 ColorBook See NOTE 1.
486DX/33 Requires
486DX/33 Dual corrected BIOS
Scan Color from System
Soft, Inc.; see
NOTE 2.
Gateway 2000 HandBook See NOTE 1.
486DX2/40 Requires
486DX2/40 corrected BIOS
Monochrome from System
Soft, Inc.; see
NOTE 2.
IBM P/S NOTE 425, For OS/2 for Windows,
425c use F1 to
display the
configuration
panel and set
RESUME ON ALARM
to OFF when
running the
Alarm mini-application.
IBM ThinkPad 700, Version 1.2 or higher
700C, 720, 720C, of the reference
and diagnostic
diskettes are
required.
IBM ThinkPad 750 See NOTE 4.
NCR Corp. NCR 3150 BIOS information
486SX/25 Active displayed
Matrix Color on start up:
PhoenixBIOS(TM) A486
Version 1.03
(C)1989-1993
Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
All Rights Reserved.
Reference ID 15
NCR Corp. SAFARI Battery Life,
Power Source,
and Battery
State information
is incorrect.
NEC Technologies UltraLite Versa
Inc.
Sharp 6800 Battery Life,
Power Source,
and Battery
State information
might be
incorrect.
Texas Instruments TravelMate 4000,
486DX2, 50MHz
Toshiba T1950, T1950CS,
T1950CT
486DX2/40 Mono,
Dual Scan Color,
Active Matrix
Color
Toshiba T3400, T3400CT
486SX/33
Monochrome,
Active Matrix
Color
Toshiba T4700CS
486DX2/50 Dual
Scan Color
Toshiba T4700CT
486DX2/50
Active Matrix
Color
Toshiba T6600C,
T6600C/CD,
T6600C/CDV
486DX2/66 Active
Matrix Color
Twinhead Corp. SubNote 486DX/33 Does not have
486DX/33 the CPU clock
Monochrome slowdown
feature. See
NOTE 3.
Zenith MastersPort
386SLe
Zenith ZNOTE 325L
NOTE 1: To run OS/2 for Windows in these models, change the
statement "BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD" in CONFIG.SYS to
the following:
BASEDEV=IBMINT13.I13
NOTE 2: For these models, the following BIOS information
is displayed on start up:
Systems Soft Bios for 80486/82C463 v1.01 (2069-09)
Contact Systems Soft, Inc. (508-651-0088) for a
corrected version of BIOS.
NOTE 3: The OS/2 APM calls into the BIOS APM once per
second to check if it is OK to do a suspend.
The following BIOS do not return OK to suspend on
OS/2 APM calls if the video display is active or
changes during the CMOS suspend timeout:
o PhoenixBIOS Version 1.03
o Phoenix NoteBIOS 486/OPTi463 Version 1.03
o PhoenixMISER V2.0
NOTE 4: Reinstall the ThinkPad video drivers after you
finish installing OS/2 for Windows.
PORTABLE COMPUTERS WITHOUT APM SUPPORT
------------------------------------
The table that follows lists the laptop computers that do
not have APM support in their BIOS; however, they can be
configured to run OS/2 for Windows if APM is not installed. (This
list represents only systems tested as of January 27, 1994.)
If you have installed OS/2 APM, ensure that it is removed
properly by doing the following:
o Remove the following two APM device statements from
CONFIG.SYS:
DEVICE=C:\OS2\APM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\OS2\MDOS\VAPM.SYS
o Delete the APM.SYS and VAPM.SYS files from the corresponding
hard disk subdirectories. This gains about
1 second during startup and frees up hard disk space.
MANUFACTURER MODEL COMMENTS
-----------------------------------------------------
COMPAQ LTE-386s/25 See NOTE 1.
COMPAQ LTE LITE 25/c See NOTE 1.
386SL
COMPAQ LTE LITE 4/25e, See NOTE 1.
4/25c, 486SL/25
Active Matrix
COMPUDYNE 3SXL/25 SLIMNOTE BIOS information
displayed
on start up:
PhoenixBIOS(TM for
VLSI Laptop 80386 BIOS
Version 1.01 R2-1 06/09/92
IBM L40SX Discontinued
product. See
NOTE 2.
IBM P/S NOTE, Model For OS/2 for Windows,
2141 use F1 to get
the configuration
panel and
set RESUME ON
RING and RESUME
ON ALARM to
OFF.
IBM PS/2 N51 Install using
386SX/SLC UINSTALL.
8551-025
Librex T386SX If screen is
black after
resume, toggle
the F1 key
(Suspend key)
to refresh
screen.
Northgate ZX Portable BIOS information
486SX/25 displayed
on start up:
Phoenix A486
version 1.01
See NOTE 3.
Texas Instruments TravelMate 4000 See NOTE 3.
WinDX2, 486DX/25
MHz
Texas Instruments TravelMate 4000 See NOTE 3.
WinSX
Texas Instruments TravelMate 4000e See NOTE 3.
SX25 Passive
Matrix Color
Texas Instruments TravelMate 4000e See NOTE 3.
WinDX2/50 Active
Color
Texas Instruments TravelMate 4000 See NOTE 3.
WinDX2/50
486DX2/50
Monochrome
Toshiba T1800 386SX/20 See NOTE 4.
Monochrome
Toshiba T1850, T1850C See NOTE 4.
386SX/25
Monochrome, Dual
Scan Color
Toshiba T1900, T1900C See NOTE 4.
486SX/20
Monochrome, Dual
Scan color
Toshiba T2200SX 386SX/20 See NOTE 4.
Monochrome
Toshiba T3100SX 386SX/16 See NOTE 4.
Mono Plasma
Toshiba T3300SL 386SL/20 See NOTE 5.
Monochrome
Toshiba T4400SX, See NOTE 4.
T4400SXP,
T4400SXC
486SX/25 Mono,
Plasma, AMC
Toshiba T4400C 486DX/33 See NOTE 4.
Active Matrix
Color
Toshiba T4500, T4500C See NOTE 4.
486SX/20
Monochrome,
Active Matrix
Color
Toshiba T4600, T4600C See NOTE 5.
486SL/33
Monochrome,
Active Matrix
Color
NOTE 1: To run OS/2 for Windows in these models, change the
statement "BASEDEV=IBM1S506.ADD" in CONFIG.SYS to
the following:
BASEDEV=IBMINT13.I13
NOTE 2: For OS/2 for Windows APM, access the IBM BBS and download
the following three files:
o TGSFX.COM (located in file area 4)
o RFL40SXA.TG0 (located in file area 27)
o L40PWR.ZIP (located in file area 37)
Run TGSFX.COM to install the TELEGET.EXE
program. Then do the following:
1. Create a new L40SX reference diskette by using
TELEGET.EXE to unpack RFL40SXA.TG0 onto a
1.44MB formatted diskette.
2. Use PKUNZIP to unzip the L40PWR.ZIP to obtain
new IDLE.EXE and PWRMGMT.SYS files.
3. Replace the IDLE.EXE and PWRMGMT.SYS files
on the newly created L40SX reference diskette
with the new IDLE.EXE and PWRMGMT.SYS files
obtained from the previous step.
4. Restart L40SX with the resulting reference
diskette in A drive and configure it with APM.
5. Verify the APM configuration by selecting VIEW
CONFIGURATION from the installation menu.
6. Exit the configuration.
7. Power off the computer and restart OS/2.
NOTE 3: Contact the manufacturer for newer versions of
their BIOS that have APM support.
NOTE 4: These models require the Toshiba APM driver
(OS2RES.EXE) available from the Toshiba BBS
(714-837-4408). This Toshiba driver will provide
partial power management capabilities under OS/2
for Windows.
NOTE 5: While running OS/2, you can use the special
power-saving keys but the additional capability of
OS/2 protect-mode APM is not supported.
PROGRAMMING TOOLS
-----------------
Enhancements have been made to two of the tools that come with the OS/2
operating system. These enhancements are not described in the OS/2
documentation. This section describes these enhancements.
LINK386
Three additional options are available in LINK386.
o /E[XEPACK:{1|2}]
EXEPACK causes pages of code and data in the file to be
compressed. The OS/2 loader will automatically decompress these
pages when the program is executed.
The /EXEPACK:1 option causes LINK386 to use the compression
algorithm that is compatible with OS/2 2.0, 2.1, and 2.11.
The /EXEPACK:2 option causes LINK386 to use a compression
algorithm that is incompatible with OS/2 2.0, 2.1 and 2.11.
o /NOO[UTPUTONERROR]
This option will prevent LINK386 from creating the executable
file if an error is encountered.
o /NOS[ECTORALIGNCODE]
LINK386 normally aligns pages of code on sector (512 byte)
boundaries.
This reduces the time to load the pages when the application is
executed. The /NOSECTORALIGNCODE option is provided to turn off
this feature.
Pages of code would then be aligned based on the value used in
the /ALIGN option.
RC - THE RESOURCE COMPILER
Two additional options are available in RC, the Resource Compiler.
o -x[{1|2}]
This option causes resources to be compressed.
These resources will be automatically decompressed when the
resource is accessed.
The -x1 option causes RC to use the compression algorithm that
is compatible with OS/2 2.0, 2.1, and 2.11.
The -x2 option causes RC to use a compression algorithm that is
incompatible with OS/2 2.0, 2.1 and 2.11.
The -x2 option will produce smaller executable files that can
access resources faster.
WARNING: The compression algorithm in the LINK386 and RC tools in this
beta is much more effective than previous versions but is
incompatible with tools from prior versions of the Developer's
Toolkit for OS/2, specifically MSGBIND. Do not use the new
compression algorithm if you intend to use MSGBIND.
PATHS
The new programming tools are placed in the \OS2 directory.
If your PATH is set to use the versions of LINK386 and RC that come
in the Developer's Toolkit for OS/2, you will either need to copy
the new programs to your existing tools directory, or change your
PATH statement to include the \OS2 directory before your existing
tools directory.
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Steve Withers
David Charlap
>
>um, I believe that os/2 currently preforms 32 bit fat accesses,
I don't know. I know it allows large caches, but a 16-bit memory
model can also allow this if the driver is well written.
>while the hpfs accesses is still strangly 16 bit...
Why so strange? The IFS interface that file systems must be written
to is 16-bit. Even if the driver is 32-bit, it would have to thunk to
16-bit on the calls/returns. It's faster to just leave the code as
16-bit.
It's not like 32-bitness is going to improve much. Disks are slow
devices, and most drivers spend their time blocking while the disk
runs. The overhead of the 16-bit memory model isn't really
significant in comparison.
Charles Rowland
currently running 2.11, would this beta be a direct replacement
for me??
Rich
David Charlap
>
>You also get more disk space as HPFS uses 512byte clusters no matter
>what the partition size - while FAT uses minimum 2Kb clusters and
>more often 4Kb or greater if you have partitions much over 40Mb.
For smaller partitions, though FAT does better WRT usable disk space.
HPFS's control structures are larger, and they grow linearly with
partition size. FAT's control structures are a fixed size for all
partitions.
I've found that the gains from a small cluster size don't overtake the
losses from more control structures until the partition size exceeds
128MB. (Where FAT's cluster size jumps from 2K to 4K) But even at
these small partition sizes, the difference isn't much. There is no
significant difference until your partition gets really large. (eg: a
1.2GB partition would have 32K clusters on FAT - wasting an average of
16K per file)
R S Rodgers
>interested in any performance improvements running Windows apps. Any
>opinions?
Likewise, I have some questions while I wait for my CD to arrive:
1. Is Win32s supported yet?
2. How well do old device drivers work? (Video, especially)
3. HAs IBM lifted the HPFS cachesize limitation?
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James Goodchild
meg) video card, a vlb ide controller and a Connor 100 meg hard drive.
To prove a point to a friend of mine, I installed OS/2 2.1 on this
system. While it ran, technically, the preformance was so bad that I
quickly dropped the OS/2 on this machine.
Wednesday, I got my hands on the OS/2 lite or Personal OS/2 (or whatever)
and installed it on this same machine. BIGGGG DIFFERENCE. OS/2 is now
actually usable on a 4 meg system, including running Windows. Actually,
the speed of the Windows programs that I tried was approximately the same
as running regular Windows 3.1 on this machine. Windows for Workgroups
3.11 on this machine still runs faster. Benchmark programs designed for
Windows do not give an acurate assesment of the speed of Windows under
OS/2 (at least none of the benchmark programs that I use), so I am basing
this on visual and timed tests for things like opening windows apps,
closing windows apps, pasting informations, etc. This beta is FAST!!!
I will be trying to use this beta with Windows for Workgroups (even
though the doc's say that this can't be done), and I will be trying to
upgrade the video drivers above stock VGA. I will post any problems that
I find.
Hopefully, the full version comes out soon as I would love to
replace the OS/2 for Windows currently running on my main 486-66 with
this release.
If anybody has any specific request for testing, post me a note and I
will attempt to try them on the spare 486. Again, OS/2 is actually
usable on a 4 meg system!!!
James Goodchild
O...@LEROY.CC.UREGINA.CA
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then I probably wouldn't be here in the 1st place!
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Deutscher
: I have a spare 486-SX 33 system with 4 meg of ram, a vlb Cirrus Logic (2
What about scsi drivers (adaptec 1542 / 2742) and what about HPFS?
Did you use FAT or HPFS, do you see speed differences?
I plan to buy some crappy cheap 486 Motherboard to survive till PowerPCs
or Pentiums are in my pricerange (and technically matured :-)), and I want to
buy only 4 MB. However, I need long filenames ... so HPFS.
Cheers! Stefan
Ian Stirling
Rich
No, this beta is a beta of OS/2 for Windows. It contains no WINOS2 code, relying
instead on the genuine DOS Windows product.
However, if you do not use Windows then try the beta.
Regards
Ian
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Robert Kim
Deutscher <s...@martha.utcc.utk.edu> wrote:
>What about scsi drivers (adaptec 1542 / 2742) and what about HPFS?
>Did you use FAT or HPFS, do you see speed differences?
>I plan to buy some crappy cheap 486 Motherboard to survive till PowerPCs
>or Pentiums are in my pricerange (and technically matured :-)), and I want to
>buy only 4 MB. However, I need long filenames ... so HPFS.
>
>Cheers! Stefan
This beta supports adaptec 15xx and 17xx scsi cards, as well as NEC
3x series cd-rom players, and Sony 31,33A, Pansoni cd-rom drives.
I just got this beta today, and installed on my spare drive (maxtor
7245-a 245 mb hd) formatted as FAT. Subjectively, disk throughput
seems similar to my os2 2.11 on my primary drive (conner 540 - I
forget the model #, but it's a lot faster than my 245mb drive). You
can format your drive as hpfs - something I haven't tried yet, and
it's certainly doable. Video performance is snappy, even with
animation turned on, and you get the general feeling it's faster
than before.
One thing that's really surprised me: I don't have ANY swapfile! I
verified this by checking config.sys and visually checking
\os2\system, where normally the swapfile would reside. Currently,
with no swapfile, I am running livewire to post this message,
running the entire lotus smartsuite for windows (ami pro, organizer,
and 123 - but not freelance or approach) with very little disk
activity.
My system:
Home-brew 486dx-40 (33, but overclocked)
1 conner 540mb hd
1 maxtor 245 mb hd
8mb ram
currus logic cl-5424 vlb card with 1mb
os2 2.11 on drive c:
os2 2.99 on drive d:
NO SWAPFILE!
I will post here as tests are futher run. Be sure to fill out the
beta survey and mail/fax to ibm along with praises/gripes.
Robert Kim
Victor Healey
James how did you beat the system an install over W4WG? I have
W4WG 3.11 and I was going to delete it to run beta. I noticed in scanning
magazines that some were beating the ms update to win 3.11 by replacing
the new user.exe and krnl386.exe with orginal 3.1 copies. Is this how you
did it with w4wg 3.11? I understand in plain 3.11 GDI.EXE COMMDLG.EXE
PSCRIPT.DRV UNITRV.DLL VTDA.386 are all new. Same in w4wg 3.11? Anyone
with information or observation is appreciated as I am going to try os2
2.99 next wed.
I had pretty much tired of os2's bugs and installation problems
but I am willing to try the new version before I delete all my os2 files.
I have been running the full version of os2 and this beta will be the
first time I have tried the other version. Personally it seems like a
good idea in that at least I can narrow down where the problem is by
runing the exact same windows without os2 and see if the problem is in
win or os2. IMHO.
Vic Healey
vhe...@crl.com
Robert King
Probably best to create a 40mb partition (FAT or HPFS) and install the
beta into that. This is of course if you're using Boot Manager. The
beta still has bugs and may not run all of the apps that your 2.11 does.
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Mel Hulse
: In article <hatton.7...@cgl.ucsf.edu>, hat...@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton) writes:
: > No, the current beta is essentially the next OS/2 for Windows; the
: > 'full' OS/2 will get its own beta program sometime this year, possibly
: > Real Soon Now :-)
: I thought I'd heard that the equivalent release of "full" OS/2, even in beta
: form, would be three or four months down the pike, at the earliest. I was even
: planning on digging out an old copy of Windows and ordering the current beta,
: but if a "full" OS/2 beta is imminent, I'll wait for that. Any more
: information on this "RSN"?
Nothing for sure (is any software release date forecast?)
However, IBM calls this next version 2.Winter so 4 months 'til beta of a
full version would seem a good guess.
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Deutscher
: In article <1994May27....@martha.utcc.utk.edu>,
: Deutscher <s...@martha.utcc.utk.edu> wrote:
: >What about scsi drivers (adaptec 1542 / 2742) and what about HPFS?
: >Did you use FAT or HPFS, do you see speed differences?
: >I plan to buy some crappy cheap 486 Motherboard to survive till PowerPCs
: >or Pentiums are in my pricerange (and technically matured :-)), and I want to
: >buy only 4 MB. However, I need long filenames ... so HPFS.
: >
: >Cheers! Stefan
:
:
: This beta supports adaptec 15xx and 17xx scsi cards, as well as NEC
: 3x series cd-rom players, and Sony 31,33A, Pansoni cd-rom drives.
:
: I just got this beta today, and installed on my spare drive (maxtor
: 7245-a 245 mb hd) formatted as FAT. Subjectively, disk throughput
: seems similar to my os2 2.11 on my primary drive (conner 540 - I
: forget the model #, but it's a lot faster than my 245mb drive). You
: can format your drive as hpfs - something I haven't tried yet, and
: it's certainly doable. Video performance is snappy, even with
Sincerely hope so ... :-) What I mean is: has anybody done this actually
with only 4 MB RAM. Does it work or does the HPFS IFS eat up all the extra
RAM that the slimmed down beta freed for applications?
Cheers!
Stefan (expecting beta to arrive next Tuesday :->)
: animation turned on, and you get the general feeling it's faster
:
Tom Hatton
No, the current beta is essentially the next OS/2 for Windows; the
'full' OS/2 will get its own beta program sometime this year, possibly
Real Soon Now :-)
To run the current beta, you need to have a copy of the US MS Win3.1
to get any Windows support.
--
Tom Hatton | "...after hearing ten thousand explanations, a fool
hat...@cgl.ucsf.edu| is no wiser. But an intelligent man needs only
| two thousand five hundred." The Mahabharata.
Claude Biron
:
>One thing that's really surprised me: I don't have ANY swapfile! I
>verified this by checking config.sys and visually checking
>\os2\system, where normally the swapfile would reside. Currently,
>with no swapfile, I am running livewire to post this message,
>running the entire lotus smartsuite for windows (ami pro, organizer,
>and 123 - but not freelance or approach) with very little disk
>activity.
>
>NO SWAPFILE!
There has to be a swap file someplace. Has it been marked hidden by chance?
rsm...@pearl.tufts.edu
> 'full' OS/2 will get its own beta program sometime this year, possibly
> Real Soon Now :-)
I thought I'd heard that the equivalent release of "full" OS/2, even in beta
form, would be three or four months down the pike, at the earliest. I was even
planning on digging out an old copy of Windows and ordering the current beta,
but if a "full" OS/2 beta is imminent, I'll wait for that. Any more
information on this "RSN"?
--Rod Smith
RSM...@PEARL.TUFTS.EDU
Robert Kruck
but I can not seem to install the Service and Diagnostic files (It tells
me that I can not access it, or something like that), and I get an error
when I try to swap kernals. Any suggestions or thoughts as to how to fix
this or why it's happening?
Robert A. Kruck rkr...@cais.com
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\\
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Victor Healey
The os2 2.99 swap file defaults to the root of drive C: From dos
use attrib command to view it's existance if you don't have a more
capable way of doing it.
From bad expierence I have discovered that os2 on booting will
relocate the swap file from root of C: if there isn't enough room to the
normal location in the os2 directory. But if that is also on drive c: you
are suddenly in DEEP DODO.
Vic Healey
Steve Withers
James Goodchild <o...@leroy.cc.uregina.ca> wrote:
>
> Wednesday, I got my hands on the OS/2 lite or Personal OS/2 (or whatever)
> and installed it on this same machine. BIGGGG DIFFERENCE. OS/2 is now
> actually usable on a 4 meg system, including running Windows. Actually,
Me, too. I had DeScribe 4.0e, Excal and FM/2 1.4 all open and ready to
work on a 4Mb ThinkPad and if there was any swapping going on, it was
trivial. The system was very responsive. I could swap easily between
apps.
I did not bother with Windows applications as the overhead is easily
avoided by using good OS/2 apps. The ones mentioned above would represent
a very usable system for anyone who was "on the go" in a business/sales
position. Or a home user or small business.
I need not have used FM/2 at all - the Drives folder is adequate for most
things. But FM/2 lets you handle *.zip archives *so* easily.......
This is good stuff!
Steve Withers
> What about scsi drivers (adaptec 1542 / 2742) and what about HPFS?
> Did you use FAT or HPFS, do you see speed differences?
> I plan to buy some crappy cheap 486 Motherboard to survive till PowerPCs
> or Pentiums are in my pricerange (and technically matured :-)), and I want to
> buy only 4 MB. However, I need long filenames ... so HPFS.
You do not want to use HPFS in 4Mb. Get 8Mb. Fat is fine for 4Mb.....but
that just isn't enough RAM for OS/2, HPFS and more than one app of any size
Steve Withers
I think if you use the NOSWAP parameter on the MEMMAN command in the
CONFIG.SYS, you not swap.....but you will die suddenly should you run out
of RAM.
This if for timing sensitive apps on dedicated systems - with no memory
leaks....
Try it.....but don't say you weren't warned.....16Mb of RAM *minimum*
recommended (by me).
R S Rodgers
Steve Withers <ste...@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
>In article <2s7lhh$d...@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>,
>Claude Biron <bi...@unixg.ubc.ca> wrote:
>>>One thing that's really surprised me: I don't have ANY swapfile!
You probably have one, it's just not where you think it is.
Try looking in c:\.
>> There has to be a swap file someplace. Has it been marked hidden by chance?
>
>I think if you use the NOSWAP parameter on the MEMMAN command in the
>CONFIG.SYS, you not swap.....but you will die suddenly should you run out
>of RAM.
Why is this true? There's no real reason for the system to die
because it can't allocate more RAM.
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could screw your head off and place it on the table to greet the guard."
-- Edmund Kemper, convicted serial killer, to
Robert K. Ressler ("Whoever Fights Monsters")
Robert Kim
I don't consider that a "big" problem. I've been having consistent
problems w/ Golden CommPass setting defaults for forums. Specifically,
if I have Read XYZ notebooks (opened or unopened), and try to change
the forums setting, I would get an error about no exception handlers
being available. I can repeat this once or twice before it does what
it's supposed to do.
Also, this is probably related to the comm problem (which IBM
acknowledges, if I read correctly in C$), is that the comm session
under GCP froze solid (requiring C-A-D) while downloading OS2BETA
forum messages, and I didn't find out until I returned to my room
after watching some taped episodes of The Simpsons (about 45min),
probably still connected (as I heard the 'click' when I rebooted),
wasting $$$. Strange, this NEVER happens when I'm at my desk, working
on other things.
Somewhere buried in the readme file is a note that says something
like: "Don't run your mission critical apps..."
I got this beta on an HPFS partition. The formatting process was quite
fast, as I was thumbing through the readme pages thinking it would
take "two tenths of eternity (RSR)" and it didn't; I didn't time it,
but it seemed comparable to formatting FAT, if not faster. It would
have been nice (as RSR suggests) to be able to see a percentage of
disk format (my system is a tower case, and next to my desk - I'd have
to stretch to see the disk light). After copying back windows, I
rebooted, and found it (subjectively) faster than FAT.
This time, I did see the swap setting in config.sys (in
d:\os2\system).
Overall, as many suggest, this version is indeed responsive. Small
apps such as Yarn pop up instantly (I know, it's not *that* instant..)
and I can immediately start opening other apps. As for messages
queues, it's still the old single queue (verified by IBM). I like the
idea of fastload for windows app - exactly like seamwin. You'll note
however, that if you have sound card drivers installed for windows,
and have fastload enabled, you'll not be able to use mmpm2 in your os2
sessions, nor any dos programs that use sound - you just get silence.
With fastload, you must make a decision whether to have sound in
windows or os2, bt not both at the same time. Also, if you have
fastload enabled, and then run program manager, and then exit, you
also exit out of fastload - just like seamwin. In fact, if you look
that the PStat window in PMPatrol, you'll see the stub for fastload,
but it's not visible with Ctrl-Esc.
Freelance for windows can not find its smarticons, although ami pro,
123, and organizer can. So no smarticons while running freelance. I
still hate the fact that when you migrate windows apps, they default
to standard mode and not follow the settings on winos2 defaults in the
system folder.
I have not been abe to duplicate the problem of clicking on [+] [-] on the
directory tree (as my drive icon/folder defaults to icon view), and
even when actually trying it, I haven't been able to duplicate it. One
thing, however, is that the desktop sometimes does not refresh "all
the way," leaving junk on the screen (and requiring another refresh).
As for mmpm2, I lost all settings, as it wasn't able to play
any sound or movies, even though the drivers were still loaded.
Checking the multimedia setup, it lost all the settings (as in no
soundcard, no video, no cd-rom, etc). I don't know how this happened,
and after reinstalling mmpm2, I have not been able to reproduce it.
There seems to be no improvement in speed in mmpm2, and still resource
intensive.
I haven't had any traps, except for the problems requiring C-A-D in
GCP. This beta easily beats my pc at work, which runs windows, and
which requires rebooting 3-4 times a day, in that other than GCP, I
have been able to run without rebooting - and since I'm able to exit
from apps gracefully.
I think the current version of os2 for windows could have been more
successful if it had the speed and responsiveness of this beta.
This beta easily feels faster than os2 2.11 (I don;t have any suitable
os2 benchmarking programs), especially due to it improved speed in
windowing and disk throughput. I can;t say much for the HPFS cache
limitation, as I only have 8 megs, but would have liked being able to
choose a larger cache than 2 megs.
Even though this beta can run satisfactorily in 4mb, I still would not
recommend, nor run my own pc in 4mb. I think the "sweet spot" for this
beta is 8 megs, down from 16 mb recommened by pcmag.
----
Robert Kim
rk...@kaiwan.com
"Give your dog an appetizing name and eat him."
James Goodchild
: What about scsi drivers (adaptec 1542 / 2742) and what about HPFS?
: Did you use FAT or HPFS, do you see speed differences?
: I plan to buy some crappy cheap 486 Motherboard to survive till PowerPCs
: or Pentiums are in my pricerange (and technically matured :-)), and I want to
: buy only 4 MB. However, I need long filenames ... so HPFS.
: Cheers! Stefan
The test bed machine that I have does not include SCSI. My main system
does. For both the original OS/2 2.1 and Warp the partitions on the test
bed system were FAT. On my main system, depending on the application,
there is sometimes a speed increase using HPFS.
Jeroen Frijters
> In article <CqM0n...@actrix.gen.nz>,
> Steve Withers <ste...@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
>>In article <2s7lhh$d...@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>,
>>Claude Biron <bi...@unixg.ubc.ca> wrote:
>>>>One thing that's really surprised me: I don't have ANY swapfile!
>
> You probably have one, it's just not where you think it is.
> Try looking in c:\.
>
>>> There has to be a swap file someplace. Has it been marked hidden by chance?
>>
>>I think if you use the NOSWAP parameter on the MEMMAN command in the
>>CONFIG.SYS, you not swap.....but you will die suddenly should you run out
>>of RAM.
>
> Why is this true? There's no real reason for the system to die
> because it can't allocate more RAM.
Yes, there is. Memory is not committed until it is actually used, so there
is no mechanism to tell the app (or part of the kernel for that matter) that
there is no more memory. You can get around this by adding COMMIT to the
MEMMAN= statement in your CONFIG.SYS. You will need a lot of memory to
run this way, though.
>
>
> --
> "If I went apeshit in here, you'd be in a lot of trouble, wouldn't you? I
> could screw your head off and place it on the table to greet the guard."
> -- Edmund Kemper, convicted serial killer, to
> Robert K. Ressler ("Whoever Fights Monsters")
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R S Rodgers
Jeroen Frijters <jfri...@et.tudelft.nl> wrote:
>> Why is this true? There's no real reason for the system to die
>> because it can't allocate more RAM.
>
>Yes, there is.
No, there isn't. NT doesn't crash when it runs out of virtual
memory. I've tried it.
Steve Withers
>
> Overall, as many suggest, this version is indeed responsive. Small
> apps such as Yarn pop up instantly (I know, it's not *that* instant..)
> and I can immediately start opening other apps. As for messages
> queues, it's still the old single queue (verified by IBM). I like the
> idea of fastload for windows app - exactly like seamwin. You'll note
> however, that if you have sound card drivers installed for windows,
> and have fastload enabled, you'll not be able to use mmpm2 in your os2
> sessions, nor any dos programs that use sound - you just get silence.
> With fastload, you must make a decision whether to have sound in
> windows or os2, bt not both at the same time. Also, if you have
>
It is probably worth pointing out that this inability to have two tasks
simultaneously owning the sound card for purposes of didgital sound (I
mean *wav files here.....) is a design limitation of the card in
question.
Anyone who has seen the David Barnes OS/2 vs NT "shootout" video will
remember him playing two vid clips -with full sound - at the same time.
This is possible because he was using an IBM M-Audio card which supports
this.
SoundBlasters and similar sound cards do NOT support this. So you can't
share them.
I would not blame OS/2 for this. Talk to Creative Technologies,
MediaVision and Gravis about it if their cards do not support this
functionality....and you want it.
My nz$0.02 worth.....
David Charlap
>like: "Don't run your mission critical apps..."
No kidding. Anyone who runs a mission critical app on a beta OS is
asking for trouble. This is a good rule for any beta OS on any
hardware platform.
Tom Hatton
Well, I was using R.S.N. in its sarcastic form - that is, many vendors
promise something Real Soon Now, and it may be anywhere from days to
years to never for the actual appearance of the item.
So, while rumour has it that the 'full' version beta is not as far
down the line as you suggest, it could well end up being even later
than that, given the way things work. As usual, we'll see it when it's
ready.
Tom Hatton
>In article <2s7lhh$d...@nntp.ucs.ubc.ca>,
>Claude Biron <bi...@unixg.ubc.ca> wrote:
>> In message <2s6ko2$j...@kaiwan.kaiwan.com> - rk...@kaiwan.com (Robert Kim) writes
>> :
>> >In article <1994May27....@martha.utcc.utk.edu>,
>> >Deutscher <s...@martha.utcc.utk.edu> wrote:
>>
>> >One thing that's really surprised me: I don't have ANY swapfile! I
>> >verified this by checking config.sys and visually checking
>> >\os2\system, where normally the swapfile would reside. Currently,
>> >with no swapfile, I am running livewire to post this message,
>> >running the entire lotus smartsuite for windows (ami pro, organizer,
>> >and 123 - but not freelance or approach) with very little disk
>> >activity.
>> >
>> >NO SWAPFILE!
>>
>> There has to be a swap file someplace. Has it been marked hidden by chance?
>I think if you use the NOSWAP parameter on the MEMMAN command in the
>CONFIG.SYS, you not swap.....but you will die suddenly should you run out
>of RAM.
>This if for timing sensitive apps on dedicated systems - with no memory
>leaks....
>Try it.....but don't say you weren't warned.....16Mb of RAM *minimum*
>recommended (by me).
Actually, as I pointed out in another post, this seems to be a bug in
the install - it doesn't put a swappath statement in config.sys; the
user should add one manually especially if the C: drive (where the
swap seems to default to) is small or almost full.
James Goodchild
: James how did you beat the system an install over W4WG? I have
: Vic Healey
: vhe...@crl.com
Hi Vic
Let me reclarify. I have not beat the WFWG setup yet. Windows 3.11 can
be used by replacing the KRNL386.EXE that comes with Windows 3.11 with
the same file from Windows 3.1. Windows for Workgroups uses VDX and with
the current release of OS2, including the beta, it will not work. I was
going to experiment with a hybrid WFWG that uses some files from Windows
3.1 and some files from WFWG 3.11. This is the only way that I can see
that I might ;-) get some of the features that I want from WFWG to work
under OS2. Of course, I can always just wait and see if IBM will solve
my problem for me by allowing WGWG to be used under OS2.
Steve Withers
R S Rodgers <rsro...@wam.umd.edu> wrote:
> In article <1994May31....@tudedv.et.tudelft.nl>,
> Jeroen Frijters <jfri...@et.tudelft.nl> wrote:
> >> Why is this true? There's no real reason for the system to die
> >> because it can't allocate more RAM.
> >
> >Yes, there is.
>
> No, there isn't. NT doesn't crash when it runs out of virtual
> memory. I've tried it.
BUt we weren't talking about virtual memory. In a NOSWAP system, you
don't have any virtual memory. It's all real.
Can you run NT without a swap file and keep on stacking up the apps? Or
does it just refuse to start any more programs?
I have not actually tried NOSWAP with OS/2, so my comments on crashing
when the RAM runs out were based on what I have been told. As you are
playing with the PerBeta right now, why don't you give it a go?
Let to me know what happens on *your* system....:-)
Hamish Marson
> In article <1994May31....@tudedv.et.tudelft.nl>,
> Jeroen Frijters <jfri...@et.tudelft.nl> wrote:
> >> Why is this true? There's no real reason for the system to die
> >> because it can't allocate more RAM.
> >
> >Yes, there is.
> No, there isn't. NT doesn't crash when it runs out of virtual
> memory. I've tried it.
Indeed there is no reason. The process should simply get a NULL handle
back from malloc, and it would then die. If lazy swap is implemented as in
AIX, OSF etc, then either the process causing the over allocation (OR
attempted allocation), or the largest process (not my favourite way, but
it seeems to work) should be killed.
Also I think its about time we had a generic swap filesystem driver. One
thats optimised for paging. paging on OS/2 is just too slow. In fact
it feels positively kludgy at times. Would also stop my c: (Or whatever)
from filling up unexpectedly.... (And give me a known amount of swap space).
Another thing that would be goof would be to make the filesystem caches
part of the VMM. That way free memory would be used as a dynamic filesystem
cache. Just like in my unix boxes....
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>don't have any virtual memory. It's all real.
You should use the word "physical" instead of "real", as that can get
confused with "real mode" which is somethine else entirely :-)
>I have not actually tried NOSWAP with OS/2,
You need about 32MB in order to use NOSWAP effectively. Remember, with
NOSWAP on, the code that's executed during installation is not swapped out,
so there's a lot of stuff that's never used again.
Of course, the new beta might cut this down to 24MB.
Follow-ups to c.o.o.beta, where this belongs.
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Mike Laster
Hamish Marson <ham...@waikato.ac.nz> wrote:
>Also I think its about time we had a generic swap filesystem driver. One
>thats optimised for paging. paging on OS/2 is just too slow. In fact
>it feels positively kludgy at times. Would also stop my c: (Or whatever)
>from filling up unexpectedly.... (And give me a known amount of swap space).
The only problem with this is that we would no longer have the luxury of a
dynamically-sized pagefile like we do now. If we wanted 200 meg of VM, then
we would have to permanently allocate 200 meg of hard drive space, even if
nearly all of it goes unused most of the time. I like OS/2's dynamic method
because the pagefile doesn't eat up more hard drive space than necessary.
>Another thing that would be goof would be to make the filesystem caches
>part of the VMM. That way free memory would be used as a dynamic filesystem
>cache. Just like in my unix boxes....
That would be very nice. I wonder if it could be worked into the IFS concept
well?
Terje Normann Marthinussen
: In article <2slt3m$q...@thebes.waikato.ac.nz>,
: Hamish Marson <ham...@waikato.ac.nz> wrote:
: >Also I think its about time we had a generic swap filesystem driver. One
: >thats optimised for paging. paging on OS/2 is just too slow. In fact
: >it feels positively kludgy at times. Would also stop my c: (Or whatever)
: >from filling up unexpectedly.... (And give me a known amount of swap space).
: The only problem with this is that we would no longer have the luxury of a
: dynamically-sized pagefile like we do now. If we wanted 200 meg of VM, then
: we would have to permanently allocate 200 meg of hard drive space, even if
: nearly all of it goes unused most of the time. I like OS/2's dynamic method
: because the pagefile doesn't eat up more hard drive space than necessary.
Most Unixs have both device and filesystem swap. device swap is easily the
fastest (you can easily implement some very fast indexing for instance), while
filessytem swap is very nice to fall back on when you get in trouble.
: >Another thing that would be goof would be to make the filesystem caches
: >part of the VMM. That way free memory would be used as a dynamic filesystem
: >cache. Just like in my unix boxes....
: That would be very nice. I wonder if it could be worked into the IFS concept
: well?
Well, I don't praise the dynaimc cache that much although dynamic cache would
be nice as an option. The problem is just that dynamic cache have a nasty
tendency to force other data to swap to disk so it can use more memory
as a cache. Not always the best sollution. Personally I would rather have
the possibility to use a fixed size cache of a larger size than 2MB.
Terje Marthinussen
ter...@stud.cs.uit.n
michael schievelbein
>
>It is probably worth pointing out that this inability to have two tasks
>simultaneously owning the sound card for purposes of didgital sound (I
>mean *wav files here.....) is a design limitation of the card in
>question.
>
>Anyone who has seen the David Barnes OS/2 vs NT "shootout" video will
>remember him playing two vid clips -with full sound - at the same time.
>This is possible because he was using an IBM M-Audio card which supports
>this.
>
>SoundBlasters and similar sound cards do NOT support this. So you can't
>share them.
>
>I would not blame OS/2 for this. Talk to Creative Technologies,
>MediaVision and Gravis about it if their cards do not support this
>functionality....and you want it.
Just for your info, it is the limitations of the DRIVERS and not the cards
themselves IN GENERAL that limit the dual playing/sharing action...
From personal experience, I had my ProAudioStudio-16 set up when I was doing
demos, so that I could play 2 AVI files at the same time, along with a MID
file, CD-ROM music and speaker all being mixed and played out at the SAME TIME..
This has all been reported to IBM and they are SUPPOSED to be working with
Mediavision and Creative Labs to modify their drivers as we speak, in time
for OS/2 2.2
We can only HOPE....
Michael Schievelbein
TEAM OS/2
'The BEST Operating System is the one YOU use and LIKE.'
Kenny Crudup
rsro...@wam.umd.edu (R S Rodgers) says:
>Does anyone have a concrete answer to these--
If you don't wanna put the Sears Tower on that concrete,
>1. Does OS/2 page out the disk caches?
>2. Does Os/2 pre-allocate the discache memory at bootup. That is, are the 2MB
> RAM for HPFS [assume I've got 2048 allocated] and the 2MB RAM for the
> FAT diskcache aleady consuming memory once the system has started?
... I am 99 44/100% sure the answer to (1) is NO and to (2) is YES. "OS20MEMU"
will bear me out. This info comes from the "Design of OS/2" book and the net.
Where's Kai Rommel or os2man?
-Kenny
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Terje Normann Marthinussen
: In article <2sntnu$4...@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu>
: rsro...@wam.umd.edu (R S Rodgers) says:
: >Does anyone have a concrete answer to these--
: If you don't wanna put the Sears Tower on that concrete,
: >1. Does OS/2 page out the disk caches?
: >2. Does Os/2 pre-allocate the discache memory at bootup. That is, are the 2MB
: > RAM for HPFS [assume I've got 2048 allocated] and the 2MB RAM for the
: > FAT diskcache aleady consuming memory once the system has started?
: ... I am 99 44/100% sure the answer to (1) is NO and to (2) is YES. "OS20MEMU"
: will bear me out. This info comes from the "Design of OS/2" book and the net.
I am 100% sure that you have give the right answers.
Terje Marthinussen
ter...@stud.cs.uit.no
R S Rodgers
Terje Normann Marthinussen <ter...@stud.cs.uit.no> wrote:
>Kenny Crudup (kcr...@orion.ts.stratus.com) wrote:
[pre-allocated caches are non-swappable]
OK, guys, thanks for the help. This is what I thought, but I couldn't
find a source in print. Any suggestions?
Ujcic Damir, TF Maribor, Slovenia
> that just isn't enough RAM for OS/2, HPFS and more than one app of any size
>
> Steve
I have only 4MB RAM, and I found HPFS to be faster then FAT.
Damir
R S Rodgers
Mike Laster <las...@hpserv.keh.utulsa.edu> wrote:
>>Another thing that would be goof would be to make the filesystem caches
>>part of the VMM. That way free memory would be used as a dynamic filesystem
>>cache. Just like in my unix boxes....
>
>That would be very nice. I wonder if it could be worked into the IFS concept
>well?
Seems to have integrated well enough on NT. HPFS, NTFS, and CDFS
all share the same dynamic cache. IMHO, all the clamoring for a
>2MB HPFS cache is going to backfire when IBM delivers it, because then
they'll have users wasting 4-8MB of RAM on diskcache (4MB for FAT, 4MB
for HPFS, whatever <4MB from each to the CD) and those users
Speaking of which, I have been trying to find out a solid answer for awhile.
Does anyone have a concrete answer to these--
1. Does OS/2 page out the disk caches?
2. Does Os/2 pre-allocate the discache memory at bootup. That is, are the 2MB
RAM for HPFS [assume I've got 2048 allocated] and the 2MB RAM for the
FAT diskcache aleady consuming memory once the system has started?
R S Rodgers
Steve Withers <ste...@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
>Can you run NT without a swap file and keep on stacking up the apps? Or
>does it just refuse to start any more programs?
No, actually, you can't. NT automatically puts you into swapfile
creation if your total swap space (from all swapfiles on all drives)
is less than.. 15MB? AFAIK, though, this actually depends on the
total RAM in your system.
NT can be quite a whiner when your paging file(s) is (are) near
their upper expansion limits, but it'll keep going. IMHO, although
they have the right idea in notifying you, I'd prefer something a
little less annoying, like maybe a topmost borderless window in the
corner of the screen with a flashing skull and crossbones.
>I have not actually tried NOSWAP with OS/2, so my comments on crashing
>when the RAM runs out were based on what I have been told. As you are
>playing with the PerBeta right now, why don't you give it a go?
Actually, back when I was experimenting with Tshell on 2.1,
I did exactly this. It's a very strange experience to run OS/2
without the flurry of paging activity that you seem to get even when
lots of real memory should still be free. It was *extremely*
noticible on my 20MB system. Things sounded different.
Don't know about the perfbeta (deleted it this morning and the
space is no occupied) but OS/2 locks up fairly abrubtly and solidly
if you run out of RAM with NOSWAP set. Nothing like what sometimes
happens when you do it with swap enabled (the occasional trashed disks
and files), though. One thing I never tried that I just thought of
now is disabling PROTECT (NOPROTECT?) and seeing what happens.
>Let to me know what happens on *your* system....:-)
I did this back when I was still hot about OS/2 2.0 for a friend
who claimed that OS/2 was so broken that it would wipe your HD
if you ran out of swapfile space. "HA" I said.
Yeah, well, I'm glad I have a tape backup these days.
Paul Prescod
>The only problem with this is that we would no longer have the luxury of a
>dynamically-sized pagefile like we do now. If we wanted 200 meg of VM, then
>we would have to permanently allocate 200 meg of hard drive space, even if
>nearly all of it goes unused most of the time. I like OS/2's dynamic method
>because the pagefile doesn't eat up more hard drive space than necessary.
Why not have a swap drive, and an overflow swap drive.
Paul Prescod
Henry J. Cobb
1. Does OS/2 page out the disk caches?
No, the SYSTEM filesystem cache is fixed physical memory, but any
application level buffers will be swaped. (Like libc's stdio.h stuff).
Physical memory all allocated to VM-based filesystem cache (like
wot modern Unixes do) is very nice.
For any page fault, the system simply looks up the file mapped to
that region (/dev/zero for swap space. i.e.: heap or stack), requests the
DMA device to page it in and goes throws somthing else out. There is very
little system overhead if your file API is: "Dereference a pointer into
your file".
Thats why I want WPOS: nifty OS arch, without the configuration
headaches of Unix or a braindead MicroSnuff interface. (Is that redundent?
;-)
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gambling?" -Bill Eldridge
Thad Wilson
>all share the same dynamic cache. IMHO, all the clamoring for a
>>2MB HPFS cache is going to backfire when IBM delivers it, because then
>they'll have users wasting 4-8MB of RAM on diskcache (4MB for FAT, 4MB
>for HPFS, whatever <4MB from each to the CD) and those users
I have an AMI Fastdisk EISA SCSI-2 fast caching host adaptor with 4MB of
RAM and I get 20MB/s. If you want caching just buy a REAL scsi adaptor. I
know there are people out there that say "caching is something that should
be done in software" BUT ARGUE ALL YOU WANT not all software is created
equally and if I find an OS that has a better software cache I can take the
4 1MB SIMMS and put them on my motherboard. I bought my controller when I
primarilly used DOS because all DOS caches SUCK compared to the performance
and safety of this hardware cache. Nothing makes your day like a wild
program that pukes in the middle of the memory allocated to the cache while
you FAT is in there. A TSR cache for DOS that would work with any
efficiency apparently would take too much conventional memory >or just isnt
possible in an operating system that allows programs to directly access hard
drives<. (I say this because no one has made a DOS TSR cache that works
with any efficiency). As far as I can tell the #1 software cache I have
ever seen is the one built into WFWG 3.11 (I think it is a VxD). Anyway its
the only thing I've seen that makes a DOS compile run anywhere near as fast
and as safely(in a protected environment) as my HW cached system.
I just recently started evaluating 32 bit OSs (NT,OS/2,Next,Linux). I am
using NT now. Its caching seems to be quite good. I hope I can say the
same about OS2 and the others.
If you have an opinion on this please post it or send mail.
Dennis Powell
. Just for your info, it is the limitations of the DRIVERS and not the
. cards themselves IN GENERAL that limit the dual playing/sharing action...
affirmative. and creative has released new drivers that support this.
available on their board.
dep (dennis...@accbbs.com)
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Dennis Powell
. Well, I don't praise the dynaimc cache that much although dynamic cache
. would be nice as an option. The problem is just that dynamic cache have a
. nasty tendency to force other data to swap to disk so it can use more
. memory as a cache. Not always the best sollution. Personally I would
. rather have the possibility to use a fixed size cache of a larger size
. than 2MB.
that's effectively possible now by specifying a larger size on the swappath
line of config.sys. it's a trivial matter to follow the swapper.dat size
through use of a system monitor for a few weeks and get a sense of the size
of the swapfile that's typically needed. then let it initialize at that
size. makes things a little quicker.
dep (dennis...@accbbs.com)
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Kenneth Crandall
What is there board number. Or, better yet, do they have an FTP site?
Ken Crandall
spe...@u.washington.edu
Dennis Powell
>. Just for your info, it is the limitations of the DRIVERS and not the
>. cards themselves IN GENERAL that limit the dual playing/sharing action...
>affirmative. and creative has released new drivers that support this.
>available on their board.
. What is there board number. Or, better yet, do they have an FTP site?
their board number is 405 742-6660.
dep (dennis...@accbbs.com)
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}On 06-07-94, Kenneth Crandall asked me:
}
}>. Just for your info, it is the limitations of the DRIVERS and not the
}>. cards themselves IN GENERAL that limit the dual playing/sharing action...
}
}>affirmative. and creative has released new drivers that support this.
}>available on their board.
}
}. What is there board number. Or, better yet, do they have an FTP site?
}
}their board number is 405 742-6660.
The next obvious question is: can someone please upload it to cdrom?
Or are there legal or beta restrictions on the drivers that prevent
this?
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>In article <qdOwjC5M...@kaiwan.com>, Robert Kim <rk...@kaiwan.com> wrote:
>>
>>Somewhere buried in the readme file is a note that says something
>>like: "Don't run your mission critical apps..."
>
>No kidding. Anyone who runs a mission critical app on a beta OS is
>asking for trouble. This is a good rule for any beta OS on any
>hardware platform.
>
getting ready to try some more betas for stability reasons.
Michael Taylor