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 was selling, or even whe
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 modes that make QPro so va
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 sync'd up to
>> that in the P
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
automatically,
> > ran amok
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 other things. QPro is one of those apps where the be
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
some filter design too
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 Quattro 5.5 release.)
> QP
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,
> ran amok and trashed my
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 don't recall offhand
>> whether there was an actual
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 released.
> Remember
> > Dale said this was *unrelea
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 was released by Novell. I
> > 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 t
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.
> the
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 spezialised stuff like
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 who
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 the better DOS than
> DO
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.
https://sourceforge.net/p/freedos/mailman/freedos-user/thread/2173a1b7-7f02-da55-6568-108380912f09%40earthlink.net/#msg3580509
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 s
> 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
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.
OS/
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 releas
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 *unreleased* software. (I d
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 actual Quattro 5.5 releas
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 manu
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