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Well, well, well.. Lets see, it acording what your looking for, if you want a
software that has all the programs you want, then Win95, but OS/2 dosent..  I
know it has some kinda windows clone.. But still, Windows 95 has the 200
something character long filenames.. and OS/2 is limited to the 8 character..
Also, i dont like the DOS in os\2, not as many features, as dos in Win95..
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Nope, nope, and nope.

The only Windows program that I haven't found an acceptable equivalent for is
Microsoft Word.  I haven't, however had a chance to test some of the popular
OS/2 work processors such as DeScribe.

OS/2 DOES NOT have a Windows clone.  It runs Windows 3.1 just like MS-DOS
does (who ever said Windows 3.x was an operating system?).  It does have a
DOS emulation though.  It's 6.0 compatible, and virtually flawless.



OS/2 IS NOT limited to 8.3 filenames.  It can use up to 256 characters out of
the box and can run with any multitude of filesystems (Linux, AFS, JFS,
TVFS).  Anyone who wants to create a file system for OS/2 can do so.  All
they have to do is write a driver to the IFS spec.


Andrew Cohen
acohen@eng.ua.edu
TEAM OS/2 -- IBM