OT: Writing floppies on PC; Was Re: Guys take a look

From: Sridhar the POWERful <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Fri Apr 19 13:03:37 2002

On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Bryan Pope wrote:

> > > It's a Windows things... For some reason they just can't multitask
> > > properly while doing a floppy disk format. Maybe they are still using DOS
> > > type format routines.
> > >
> > > With OS/2, you can also do a full format of a floppy and do anything else
> > > with
> > > no slowdown.
> > >
> >
> > That was a big bragging point for us OS/2 users.
> >
>
> When OS/2 (V3?) came out, a friend and I demoed it at a user group meeting.
> We put it beside whatever was the latest from M$. Of course OS/2 was *better*
> at everything... <sigh>
>
> That (formatting a floppy disk) was a big thing. The other big thing was
> playing multiple DOS games in console windows with almost *no* slowdown.

I used OS/2 in my main desktop machine right from version 1.3. I remember
when Warp came out. It was so cool to be able to play a game while using
Prodigy on my Hayes Smartmodem 2400 at the same time.

Peace... Sridhar
Received on Fri Apr 19 2002 - 13:03:37 BST