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- From: mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us (Matthew Staben)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Couldn't stick it out...
- Message-ID: <7gwkoB4w165w@comtch.spk.wa.us>
- Date: 27 Jul 92 16:18:17 GMT
- References: <1992Jul27.103456.1@kean.ucs.mun.ca>
- Sender: bbs@comtch.spk.wa.us (Waffle bbs)
- Organization: Waffle BBS at CompuTech Spokane, Washington
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- roger@kean.ucs.mun.ca writes:
-
- > > For all it's "32 bit advanced coding", just about everything I do is
- > > slower than the equivalent operation in Windows. Booting, starting Apps (i
- > > 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 th
- > > RAGS).
- > > If I've PO'd any evangelists out there, i'm sorry, but I had to get th
- > > off my chest. Rational rebuttles and reactions are welcome.(Read 'easy on
- > > 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 sens
- > 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
-
-
- Interesting. I'm on a 486-33 8meg 125 meg disk system. Plenty quick
- for me. In fact, some DOS sessions I have found actually run faster
- than they did under MSDOS. I'm also running on a Novell network and
- system just simply hums.
-
- Just a more positive reaction than yours.
-
-
- mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us _or_ mstaben@visual.spk.wa.us
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