From: John Poltorak (jpolt_at_bradnet.legend.co.uk)
Date: Fri Apr 07 2000 - 15:26:26 EDT
On Fri, Apr 07, 2000 at 08:21:22PM -0500, sehh of H.I.C. & D.B.S. wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Apr 2000 12:24:32 +0100, John Poltorak wrote:
>
> >I don't understand this.
> >The Warp 4 client with latest fixpack is already more uptodate at
> >revision level 14.040 than WSeB at 14.039.
>
> Yes thats because the fixpack1 of WSeB has been delayed. It should
> be out soon, which will bring WSeB to the same level with fp13. Remember
> that WSeB has two kernels, one is the uni-processor and the SMP one.
Yes, I use both of them.
> >I was expecting the new client to be simply a manufacturing refresh
> >consisting of the old base code with four years of fixes incorparated.
> >Am I missing something?
>
> IBM has merged Warp4 into WSeB code. Its easier to maintain one code
> rather than three! Remember that warp3 has been dropped.
No it hasn't. IBM are still supporting Warp Server, which is based on
Warp 3.
However I've never really been sure about the real differences between
Warp 3 and Warp 4. I suspect anything in \os2\boot would work fine on
Warp 3, as would most of the commands. You can even run cmd.exe from
Warp 4 on Warp 3 and it tells you that you are running OS/2 Version 4.0
when you type VER. I would be surprised if there was more than half a
dozen files different between the latest fixpacks of the two versions.
> It also brings
> one major feature, the high memory addressing, which enables you to
> run things win MS Word under Odin on OS/2.
Is this every likely to work?
I've reached my ceiling of about five Win32 apps which work under
Odin and have been at this point for months. I can't even get Paintbrush
working... And since I don't have a Windows system available, I have to
run the Windows SETUP which comes with everything, and this never works.
> þ H.I.C. & D.B.S. þ OS/2 Warp þ Hellas þ
> þ ServerConfig þ ConfigEdit þ OS/2 UK UG þ
-- John
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