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- From: roger@kean.ucs.mun.ca
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Couldn't stick it out...
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.103456.1@kean.ucs.mun.ca>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 13:04:56 GMT
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- Organization: Memorial University. St.John's Nfld, Canada
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- > For all it's "32 bit advanced coding", just about everything I do is
- > slower than the equivalent operation in Windows. Booting, starting Apps (including native OS/2 apps), moving windows, opening drives and directories,
- > shutting down; all of these tasks are quite noticably slower in 2.0 than in
- > Windows. Why? I don't know.
-
- > OS/2 will be on my system again someday; most likely as soon as 32 bit
- > gr-engine and 3.1 support are added (along with MANY other fixes, I hope.)
- > It is good, but not ready for prime-time (to paraphrase the concensus of the
- > RAGS).
- > If I've PO'd any evangelists out there, i'm sorry, but I had to get this
- > off my chest. Rational rebuttles and reactions are welcome.(Read 'easy on the
- > flames, please').
- > Mike Crandall | "I'm NOT perfect... yet."
- > crandall@spock.usc.edu |
- > USC Dept. of Aerospace Engineering | -MacGyver
-
-
- Just to say that I agree with the tone of your posting. The software
- is not yet in a form fit to be released to the general public. Too many
- strange things happen. Too many crashes. And, as you point out, too slow
- (on a 486/33, 8Mb, 200 HD). I'm still struggling with it, more out of a sense
- of challenge than anything else. Lets hope IBM can fix it before too long or
- it's dead (as far as the general computing public, as opposed to the kind of
- people that post to this newsgroup).
-
- Roger C. Green, Faculty of Medicine Phone: (709)737-6884
- Memorial University , St. John's, Newfoundland. FAX : (709)737-7010
-