Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

2017-05-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
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

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

2017-05-06 Thread Felix Miata
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

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

2017-05-06 Thread Felix Miata
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

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

2017-05-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
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

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

2017-05-06 Thread dmccunney
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

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

2017-05-06 Thread Mikkel C. Simonsen
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

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

2017-05-06 Thread Thomas Mueller
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

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

2017-05-06 Thread Felix Miata
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

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

2017-05-06 Thread dmccunney
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

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

2017-05-06 Thread Dale E Sterner
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

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

2017-05-06 Thread Felix Miata
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

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

2017-04-25 Thread 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 when it did > > I went t

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

2017-04-25 Thread 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 valuable to me. > the

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

2017-04-25 Thread dmccunney
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

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

2017-04-25 Thread 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 µVision and some filter design tools. > Tell me why anyone who

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

2017-04-25 Thread 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 better DOS than > DO

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

2017-04-25 Thread Felix Miata
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

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

2017-04-25 Thread 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 PC hardware IBM was s

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

2017-04-24 Thread 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 and trashed my hard-disk

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

2017-04-24 Thread 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 hard-disk data. OS/

Re: [Freedos-user] Quattro Pro releases

2017-04-24 Thread 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.) > QPro 5.5 was releas

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

2017-04-24 Thread 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 *unreleased* software. (I d

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

2017-04-23 Thread 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 Quattro 5.5 releas

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

2017-04-23 Thread 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 still have its manu