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- Path: sparky!uunet!wupost!waikato.ac.nz!hamish
- From: hamish@waikato.ac.nz
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Improving OS2 performance question
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.213629.9642@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 21:36:29 +1200
- References: <rdippold.711752699@cancun> <1992Jul23.223421.29621@sj.ate.slb.com>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
- Lines: 44
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- In article <1992Jul23.223421.29621@sj.ate.slb.com>, poffen@rushmore (Russ Poffenberger) writes:
- > 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.
-
- Matrox Are!! At least their agents in NZ had a fax from them a week ago saying
- that beta drivers would be available on their BBS by the end of this week (Hey
- thats today!). Can somebody have a look on their BBS and let me know if its
- there? Then I can log in and drag it back....
-
- > 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.
- >
- > Russ Poffenberger DOMAIN: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com
- > Schlumberger Technologies UUCP: {uunet,decwrl,amdahl}!sjsca4!poffen
- > 1601 Technology Drive CIS: 72401,276
- > San Jose, Ca. 95110 Voice: (408)437-5254 FAX: (408)437-5246
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- | Hamish Marson <h.marson@waikato.ac.nz> OS/2 |
- | Programmer (n/5), School of Computing and Mathematical Sciences |
- | University of Waikato, |
- | Hamilton, New Zealand. |
- |Disclaimer: Anything said in this message is the personal opinion of the |
- | finger hitting the keyboard & doesn't represent my employers |
- | opinion in any way. (ie we probably don't agree) |
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