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- Subject: Re: Thanks for the disk space
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.045426.3024@desire.wright.edu>
- From: jstewart@desire.wright.edu
- Date: 22 Jul 92 04:54:26 EST
- References: <1992Jul21.033046.2007@infonode.ingr.com>
- Organization: Wright State University
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- In article <1992Jul21.033046.2007@infonode.ingr.com>, bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown) writes:
- > Thanks IBM. If it were not for OS/2 2.0, I would still be hunting
- > for disk space from time to time, deleting a few files here, a few
- > files there, and so on. Now I won't have to do that for quite
- > some time, now that I've installed 2.0 on my machine then wiped it off.
- >
- > BTW, I have really important stuff to do with my PC. OS/2 has crashed
- > twice on me in the last two days, and it refuses to let me run
- > my Intel 386/486 C Code Builder 1.1. It will run a program compiled with
- > this version of the compiler, but not the compiler itself. I know
- > I could probably get a solution from the resident OS/2 gurus here,
- > but next week I'd have another problem and waste another couple
- > of hours solving it. If I wanted to tinker with my OS I'd get
- > Linux.
- >
- > Everything I want to run, including Code Builder, works fine right out of
- > the box under Windows 3.1, and my machine almost never swaps while running
- > windows with 8 meg (with 2 meg reserved for smartdrive), vs. swapping all
- > the time under OS/2 (with the default disk cache size). Oh, and I forgot to
- > mention that using my SVGA at 800x600x256 72hz on my 16" monitor is much
- > nicer than plain vga at 60 hz.
- >
- > It's just not worth giving up all of this just to be able to format floppies
- > while playing Wing Commander in a window.
- >
- > ------------
- > Bailey Brown "Above all else, confusion reigns."
- > Intergraph Corporation
- > bbrown@casca.b11.ingr.com Procol Harum
-
- I think you are to blame, you failed to identify your needs before you
- went ahead with purchase and installation.
-
- John Stewart
-
- P.S. thanks IBM, I use OS/2 and I love it:)
-