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- From: poffen@rushmore (Russ Poffenberger)
- Subject: Re: Improving OS2 performance question
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.223421.29621@sj.ate.slb.com>
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 92 22:34:21 GMT
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- rdippold@cancun.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
- : kspeicht@kilcom1.ucis.dal.ca (Kevin F. Speichts) writes:
- : > I have a 486/33 with 4MB of RAM with a 120MB 14ms hard drive. How
- : >can I improve OS/2's performance. I'm using dual boot option, should I use
- : >the HPFS system. Should I buy 4 more MB's of RAM. Or should I purchase a
- : >coprocessed video card like the ATI Graphics Ultra 1.0MB. Which one should
- : >yield the best performance boost. Or should I try a combination of options.
- :
- :
- : NOTHING is going to help you like 4 more MB of RAM is going to help
- : you. Get the RAM, change to HPFS, and you'll find that OS/2 literally
- : runs several times faster.
-
- True, but it still seems slower than native DOS, and Windows. I have 16Mb
- memory, and a 300Mb SCSI drive (Adaptec 1542). Maybe I would feel better
- if someone would get off their a** and write OS/2 drivers for the S3 card.
- Or at least if IBM would fix it so I could switch from a full-screen WIN-OS2
- session running Windows 3.x drivers to the PM desktop without making the
- display go to pieces.
-
- For me, Windows 3.1 beats the pants off OS/2 right now.
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