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- From: rcook@sneezy.helios.nd.edu (robert cook)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: New OS2LDR in GT16MB.ZOO work GREAT!
- Keywords: greater 16 mb thanks ibm
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.065244.4357@news.nd.edu>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 06:52:44 GMT
- Article-I.D.: news.1992Jul21.065244.4357
- References: <bealjrkl.711144820@craft.camp.clarkson.edu>
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- Reply-To: Cook.14@nd.edu (R. Kelley Cook)
- Organization: Univ. of Notre Dame
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- In article <bealjrkl.711144820@craft.camp.clarkson.edu>, bealjrkl@craft.camp.clarkson.edu writes:
- |>
- |> I just installed the new OS2LDR, contained in GT16MB.ZOO on
- |> hobbes (ftp-os2.nmsu.edu), and it works! I was quite pleasantly
- |> surprised to see the System Info program come up with about 8MB (where
- |> before it had about 4MB, and I have 20MB in my system). I have a
- |> Gateway 2000 486/33, 20MB, 210MB hard drive, Soundblaster, 2400B generic
- |> modem, etc.
- |>
- |> I also installed the new kernel, but haven't noticed any
- |> difference yet (the swap file hadn't really grown at all from what I
- |> was doing; guess I need some resource hogs to test it).
- |> --
- |> Kenneth L. Beal, Jr. bealjrkl@craft.camp.clarkson.edu
- |> "I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!" (MST3K)
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- In fact there is an even newer version of OS2LDR on
- software.watson.ibm.com dated 7-13-92 purporting to offer 16+ Meg support
- on even more clones. I just sent it to ftp-os2 under the name
- /pub/downloads/gt16mb2.zip
-
- --
- Robert Kelley Cook << Cook.14@nd.edu >>
- Univ. of Notre Dame The future for Intel computers arrived March 31!
- Physics Dept. Long Live the new OS/2! Time to close the Windows!
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