From:	Michael Feldman <mfeldman AT seas DOT gwu DOT edu>
Subject:	Re: QEMM's VM manager, V2, and CWSDpmi
To:	flaregun AT udel DOT edu (Ed Phillips)
Date:	Thu, 22 Dec 1994 11:37:22 -0500 (EST)
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> 	Speaking of OS/2... does anyone know how well DJGPP works with 
> OS/2 Warp???  It's in the stores now (around $65) and I was thinking of 
> picking it up, but I want it to behave with DJGPP.

I installed Warp last week. I haven't done anything really fancy with 
either it or djgpp, but tests I've run with GNAT-DJGPP and GNAT-OS/2,
including our GNAT-DOS editor - which we compiled with BCC-DOS to keep it
from eating RAM with its own go32 - have been fine so far. OS/2 is a quite 
well-behaved system; a number of my colleagues say they prefer running 
DOS apps under OS/2 to running them native. I do not often say nice things
about IBM, but IMHO they got this one right.

Install WARP as a dual-boot system, so you can boot native DOS in a pinch.

I've got WARP installed in  my C: FAT partition, and allocated 50 megs
on my second drive for HPFS so I can run real OS/2 apps with the OS/2
file system (long names, etc.).  This has worked very well for both
OS/2 2.1 and WARP (officially OS/2 3.0).

Mike Feldman

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