Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

From: "Thomas Mueller" > > Felix Miata composed on 2017-04-24 23:07 (UTC-0400):... > >> OS/2 needed the upgrade to MCP that eCS incorporated, and Dani's 506, DASD > >> and ATAPI drivers to run on hardware that wasn't perfectly sync'd up to > >> that in the PC hardware IBM

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

From: Felix Miata dmccunney composed on 2017-04-25 08:53 (UTC-0400): > Felix Miata composed on 2017-04-24 23:07 (UTC-0400): >> I was never able to figure out how to make any of >> the non-OS/2 DOS emulators do SVGA text modes, required to produce the 132 >> column text

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

From: Felix Miata Thomas Mueller composed on 2017-04-25 06:56 (UTC): > Felix Miata composed on 2017-04-24 23:07 (UTC-0400):... >> OS/2 needed the upgrade to MCP that eCS incorporated, and Dani's 506, DASD >> and ATAPI drivers to run on hardware that wasn't perfectly

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

From: "Thomas Mueller" > Thomas Mueller composed on 2017-04-25 02:07 (UTC): > > I ran Quattro Pro through 5 in OS/2 Warp 3 and 4 until that final OS/2 crash > > in the single-digit days of April 2001. > > OS/2 froze, did not dismount cleanly. On reboot, CHKDSK, run

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

From: dmccunney On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:07 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > eCS works much better than DesqView and QEMM ever did with "large" file I/O, > which is truly dismal in any DOS I ever seriously tried. And of course, eCS is > useful for

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

From: "Mikkel C. Simonsen" dmccunney wrote: > Only existing OS/2 users run OS/2 apps, I don't think *anyone* runs > Win 3.1 apps, I do, so there's at least one... PageMaker, CorelDRAW! and Photoshop is in regular use. And also more spezialised stuff like Keil -|Vision and

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

From: "Thomas Mueller" from dmccunney: > dmccunney composed on 2017-04-23 17:52 (UTC-0400): > > Versions are frequently skipped when software is released. Remember > > Dale said this was *unreleased* software. (I don't recall offhand > > whether there was an actual

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

From: Felix Miata Thomas Mueller composed on 2017-04-25 02:07 (UTC): > I ran Quattro Pro through 5 in OS/2 Warp 3 and 4 until that final OS/2 crash > in the single-digit days of April 2001. > OS/2 froze, did not dismount cleanly. On reboot, CHKDSK, run automatically, >

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases (was: Corel dos...)

From: dmccunney On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 6:16 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > dmccunney composed on 2017-04-23 17:52 (UTC-0400): > >> Versions are frequently skipped when software is released. Remember >> Dale said this was *unreleased* software. (I

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases (was: Corel dos...)

From: Dale E Sterner Someone else who likes Qpro - ain't it great. cheers DS On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 18:16:10 -0400 Felix Miata writes: > dmccunney composed on 2017-04-23 17:52 (UTC-0400): > > > Versions are frequently skipped when software is

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases (was: Corel dos...)

From: Felix Miata dmccunney composed on 2017-04-23 17:52 (UTC-0400): > Versions are frequently skipped when software is released. Remember > Dale said this was *unreleased* software. (I don't recall offhand > whether there was an actual Quattro 5.5 release.) QPro 5.5

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

> > Felix Miata composed on 2017-04-24 23:07 (UTC-0400):... > >> OS/2 needed the upgrade to MCP that eCS incorporated, and Dani's 506, DASD > >> and ATAPI drivers to run on hardware that wasn't perfectly sync'd up to > >> that in the PC hardware IBM was selling, or even when it did > > I went

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

dmccunney composed on 2017-04-25 08:53 (UTC-0400): > Felix Miata composed on 2017-04-24 23:07 (UTC-0400): >> I was never able to figure out how to make any of >> the non-OS/2 DOS emulators do SVGA text modes, required to produce the 132 >> column text modes that make QPro so valuable to me. >

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

On Tue, Apr 25, 2017 at 9:13 AM, Mikkel C. Simonsen wrote: > dmccunney wrote: >> Only existing OS/2 users run OS/2 apps, I don't think *anyone* runs >> Win 3.1 apps, > > I do, so there's at least one... PageMaker, CorelDRAW! and Photoshop is > in regular use. And also more

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

dmccunney wrote: > Only existing OS/2 users run OS/2 apps, I don't think *anyone* runs > Win 3.1 apps, I do, so there's at least one... PageMaker, CorelDRAW! and Photoshop is in regular use. And also more spezialised stuff like Keil µVision and some filter design tools. > Tell me why anyone

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

On Mon, Apr 24, 2017 at 11:07 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > eCS works much better than DesqView and QEMM ever did with "large" file I/O, > which is truly dismal in any DOS I ever seriously tried. And of course, eCS is > useful for other things. QPro is one of those apps where

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

Thomas Mueller composed on 2017-04-25 06:56 (UTC): > I used 3D (.WQ2) with Quattro Pro. What if you have data for each month of > the year? Third dimension is 12 deep.

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

Thomas Mueller composed on 2017-04-25 06:56 (UTC): > Felix Miata composed on 2017-04-24 23:07 (UTC-0400):... >> OS/2 needed the upgrade to MCP that eCS incorporated, and Dani's 506, DASD >> and ATAPI drivers to run on hardware that wasn't perfectly sync'd up to >> that in the PC hardware IBM was

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

> Thomas Mueller composed on 2017-04-25 02:07 (UTC): > > I ran Quattro Pro through 5 in OS/2 Warp 3 and 4 until that final OS/2 crash > > in the single-digit days of April 2001. > > OS/2 froze, did not dismount cleanly. On reboot, CHKDSK, run automatically, > > ran amok and trashed my hard-disk

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

Thomas Mueller composed on 2017-04-25 02:07 (UTC): > I ran Quattro Pro through 5 in OS/2 Warp 3 and 4 until that final OS/2 crash > in the single-digit days of April 2001. > OS/2 froze, did not dismount cleanly. On reboot, CHKDSK, run automatically, > ran amok and trashed my hard-disk data.

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

from dmccunney: > dmccunney composed on 2017-04-23 17:52 (UTC-0400): > > Versions are frequently skipped when software is released. Remember > > Dale said this was *unreleased* software. (I don't recall offhand > > whether there was an actual Quattro 5.5 release.) > QPro 5.5 was

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases (was: Corel dos...)

Someone else who likes Qpro - ain't it great. cheers DS On Sun, 23 Apr 2017 18:16:10 -0400 Felix Miata writes: > dmccunney composed on 2017-04-23 17:52 (UTC-0400): > > > Versions are frequently skipped when software is released. > Remember > > Dale said this was

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases (was: Corel dos...)

On Sun, Apr 23, 2017 at 6:16 PM, Felix Miata wrote: > dmccunney composed on 2017-04-23 17:52 (UTC-0400): > >> Versions are frequently skipped when software is released. Remember >> Dale said this was *unreleased* software. (I don't recall offhand >> whether there was an

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases (was: Corel dos...)

dmccunney composed on 2017-04-23 17:52 (UTC-0400): > Versions are frequently skipped when software is released. Remember > Dale said this was *unreleased* software. (I don't recall offhand > whether there was an actual Quattro 5.5 release.) QPro 5.5 was released by Novell. I still have its