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- From: si0_tb90020@debet.nhh.no
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: OS2 Good news and Bad news (OS2 & a little windows too)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.004959.814@debet.nhh.no>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 00:49:59 MET
- References: <9207222120.AA16068@data.src.honeywell.com>
- Organization: Norwegian School of Economics
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- In article <9207222120.AA16068@data.src.honeywell.com>, bergstro@src.honeywell.com (Pete Bergstrom) writes:
- > From: morton@qucdntri.ee.queensu.ca:
-
- > Can you elaborate on the wysiwyg apps that are so slow? I've been
- > using with OS/2 for some time now and don't feel that the speed of the
- > OS has much to do with response time. There are several apps
- > available (Klondike for one) that have quite good performance for
- > moving a bitmap around the screen (I have a 20 MHz 386dx, SpeedStar
- > video adapter, 8 Megs of ram).
- >
- > Another app that came with the Toolkit I just bought allows you to
- > drag irregular shaped bitmaps (actually, they're puzzle pieces) around
- > the screen and again, the responsiveness is more than adequate.
- >
- > IMHO, most of the sluggishness that people report about OS/2
- > applications is probably due to poor design and less than optimal
- > implementation. I expect to spend some effort using threaded
- > processing to make my programs as responsive as possible.
- >
- > Pete
-
- I'll have to comment on this. I like OS/2 quite a lot, and it is surely
- superior to DOS, Win, and also MacOS and Finder, BUT... ANY graphical
- apllication run on a MAC is very fast... It is responsive, and it works,
- from the 68000 base machines and up. I guess this is due to the fact
- that Finder was there all the time, and a lot of thought went into the
- design...
-
- BUt, I guess IBM/Microsoft thought a lot about OS/2 in the design phase
- as well, but OS/2 is VERY slow compared to an equally equipped MAC, with
- a 68030 processor. Try it and see. But then MacOs and Finder is not
- multitasking (properly)...
-
- Terje
-
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