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- From: jemenake@zeus.calpoly.edu (Joe Emenaker)
- Subject: Re: Couldn't stick it out...
- Message-ID: <1992Jul27.195510.176049@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- Organization: California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
- References: <l75b16INN8o7@spock.usc.edu> <1992Jul27.103456.1@kean.ucs.mun.ca>
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- Date: Mon, 27 Jul 1992 19:55:10 GMT
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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 (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.
-
- IBM recently responded to a Microshaft ad that said that Windows was faster
- than OS/2 in running Windows apps. The IBM doc said that this is true WHEN
- you're doing one thing at a time.
-
- For example, when they tried to load MS-Word for Win, it took 7 secs under
- Windows 3.1 and 9 seconds under OS/2. Then, they tried running XCOPY in a
- DOS window and doing it again. The OS/2 time jumped 67% to 15 seconds.
- Windows' time jumped over 500% to 44 seconds.
-
- When hearing discussions on OS/2, I've always gotten the impression that
- OS/2's strong points do not include speed at doing one thing at a time. Its
- strong points have always been touted as stabitlity and superior
- multitasking.
-
- I'll say it right here: If you don't want your computer to multi-task,
- don't run OS/2 because you stuff WILL be slower if you only do things one
- at a time.
-
- > 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).
-
- As far as your comment that it's not ready for public release:
- "There comes a time in every project when you just have to shoot the engineer
- and start production". I mean, they could have spent eternity tracking down
- every little glitch, but it would have take forever. IBM already has a
- center somewhere where they test OS/2 on all sorts of clones. I think their
- testing system is already fairly formidable. I'm not saying that the things
- you mention aren't valid. I'm just saying that they're to be expected on
- the first release of a drastically changed operating system. An OPERATING
- SYSTEM... this isn't a print spooler or a ram-disk that they wrote... this
- is a real multitasking operating system. It's gonna have some tradeoffs and
- it's gonna have some cracks in its armor. Give it time. I expect the Fall
- update is going to make it noticable faster, prettier, and more stable.
-
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