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- From: rmb5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (ROBERT M. BALLENGER)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Couldn't stick it out...
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.024447.59194@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 02:44:47 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
- Lines: 57
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- In article <1992Jul27.103456.1@kean.ucs.mun.ca>, 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 (inc
- luding 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).
-
- [stuff deleted]
-
- >> 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
- >
-
- OK, I just can't resist to post a reply. I installed OS/2 2.0 on my Gateway
- 486sx 25MHz; ATI ULTRA, 200MB HD and 8MB RAM the first of June. Prior to
- installing OS/2 2.0 I had used MS Windows for years, yes long before 3.0
- arrived. I use my computer at least one hour every day, and many days up to
- 18 hours, as a MIS PhD student sometimes I feel that I am permanently attached
- to my PC. I run alot on MS Window based applications, Word for Windows,
- EXCEL, Harvard Graphics, Quicken, Turbo Tax, Smalltalk/V etc. In addition I
- run a number of pure DOS applications Dbase, FoxPro 2.0, Soritec, university
- supplied comm package to the mainframes, Prolog, VP-expert, etc, etc,
-
- The point of all of this is that I am using a very standard installation, I
- have tweeked very little mainly b/c I just got the red books, but I really
- haven't felt the need. To Date I have had **ONE***, I repeat *ONE*, system
- trap error, and very few (3 or 4) other types of system errors. I machine and
- the OS have been running flawlessly. I multitask all the time, complies,
- coping, downloads, long print job etc, while I am doing something else. In
- fact I am backing up while I am writing this.
-
- But how is the performance you may ask, excellent!!!! It's far better than
- 3.1 windows on the surface, and the multitasking is by far superior. All I
- can say is that my experience with OS/2 has been nothing but pleasant. I
- don't have it on the machine in my office and I really miss it, I am
- far more productive with it....and that is the real bottom line!
-
- Bob Ballenger, MIS PhD student - Lehigh University
-