from Charles Belhemeur:
> Well hopefully the multi-cores are true multi-taskers and you're
> getting the time savings you thing you are. You are definitely wasting
> time with the swapping function on single core CPUs. Its faster in
> single cores to just complete one task at a time, let a routines
> finish before starting another one.
> Some of you seem inexperienced at the early attempts to multi-task on
> Intel chips. Nothing but fun in that era!
> An old rule of thumb, run DOS apps under DOS, run Windows apps under
> Windows OS, OS/2 apps under OS/2 and so on. Emulators, shells or
> cross platform support is just looking for bugs!
(snip)
OS/2 Warp 3 and 4, and even 2.x, did a good job running DOS apps but could not
run some DOS apps that required real mode, such as DOSBOOT in NetBSD or LOADLIN
for booting Linux from DOS.
Then, during the single-digit days of April 2001, after freezing and requiring
reboot by Reset button, CHKDSK, which ran automatically, ran amok and trashed
my installation and other hard-drive data.
I was never again able to boot any OS/2 after that, even from
maintenance/installation floppies.
Now I believe both Linux and FreeBSD have overtaken OS/2 and eComStation in
hardware support.
Tom
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