From: Sean Chou (ychou)
Date: Sat Jun 11 1994 - 04:23:50 EDT
> Not being an OS/2 user (yet) and being a relatively new
> Thinkpad user, I have a couple of naive questions:
> 1. Is this something I download from the IBM BBS or do
> I have to call somewhere and ask for it? If it's the
> latter, whom do I call?
You can download OS/2 Perf from IBM NSC BBS if you have a
subscription ($18/month) or from CompuServe. It's almost
20 disks though so I would advise against this strategy.
It's available on CD-ROM from 1-800-251-2177. Call soon
because the beta program is supposed to be stopping at the
end of the month. If you don't have a CD-ROM, this is
probably still the best way to go since it costs ~$15 and,
as long as you can beg, borrow, or cheat a CD-ROM drive for
an hour, you can make the disk images you need to install
it onto your TP.
> 2. Since it's the beta version of os/2 for windows, I
> presume that I can install this on windows (and cleanly
> uninstall it if I choose)?
You can indeed install this version over an existing copy of
Windows 3.1. I don't know about Windows 3.11. Windows for
Workgroups 3.11 is not supported in the beta version although
IBM claims it will be supported in the final version.
I don't know about the uninstall cleanly (or at least simply).
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