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posted by RayeR Homepage, CZ, 04.08.2011, 01:24

> I have Servant Salamander here. It's one of the early dual-pane Windows
> file managers I looked at.
Hehe it seems to be popular also outside czech rep. You probably mean old ver 1.52 that is a single exe. I use ver 2.54 with lot of plugins. Dayly I use built-in FTP, sometimes SCP and it is nice to have it integrated in panel like local drive.

> I have NDN under Linux. Which key shortcuts do you refer to? Keyboard
> support is implemented differently in Linux, so differences there are no
> surprise.
I'm not sure now, ALT+Fx?

> OS/2 was supposed to be that OS, but IBM and MS couldn't agree on
> direction. MS wanted to skip over the 286 and develop for the 386 instead.
> IBM said "No, we're developing for the 286." In retrospect, this was an
> error. While the 286 offered additional capabilities, it was essentially a
> transitional step, and the 386 was a far better platform.
In this I would agree MS :) 286 PM was crappy hybrid and 386 PM still suffer with some legacy due to 286 compatability (like decriptor structures with fragmented 32bit address and other fields...). Interesting how well OS/2 later utilize 386 (I mean CPL2, so it didn't run under some simplified VM)

> The final nail in OS/2's coffin was IBM's decision not to provide support
> for 32 bit Windows applications. You still find it around. The last I
Hm, now there's ODIN allowing to run some win32 under OS/2...

> knew, the ticket kiosks in the main railroad station here ran OS/2. I used
> to have an OS/2 server at a former employer for a specialized telephony
> application. It just ran. It there was a problem, reset it, and it took
> up where it left off.
A father of one of my friend works in a bank where AFAIK they still have some machines with OS/2 Warp 4.0. My friend copied install diskettes and this is how we meet OS/2 and I must agree that it was far beyond over windows...
But sometimes it happen that inferior product wins and spreads :P

> There is also MinGW, an implementaion of the Gnu compiler suite that uses
> the Microsoft runtime instead of the Cygwin POSIX layer, and there are
> ports of bash ansd zsh for it.
I rather use mingw32 under win. It doesn't need cygwin DLL and msvcrt DLL is a standard part of windows. Also mingw gcc runs faster. But it has some tricky things like I crashed my mouth when printing 64bit ints by %lld and msvcrt needed %I64...

> FreeDOS includes a TSR called Peruse installed at boot time that
> provides that sort of scroll-back buffer, which can be handy because it
> captures boot screens before DOS is loaded.
> You can get Peruse here: ftp://ftp.pcmag.com/archives/1994/0412/peruse.zip
Yes this tool I had probably tried before (under MSDOS 6.22) and had some problem with some program together with it, long time ago...

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