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- From: cvadrtbc@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Dvorak switches to OS/2!!
- Message-ID: <28JUL199215144041@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu>
- Date: 28 Jul 92 23:14:00 GMT
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- In article <heinz.02pw@edohwg.UUCP>, heinz@edohwg.UUCP (Heinz Wrobel) writes...
- >In article <26JUL199219020957@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu> cvadrtbc@vmsb.is.csupomona.edu (Srikanth Viswanathan) writes:
- >>As much as I liked the article, I wasn't so pleased with Dvorak's
- >>statement that you need a 386/33 or 40 with 8-16 megs of RAM *minimum*
- >>to run OS/2, and he also implied that Tseng cards don't work with OS/2.
- >
- >IMHO you need at least 8MB to get something done with OS/2 but that's
- >debatable. He's right with most ET4000 boards, though. With the OS/2
- >package I can buy at any store, I eventually get nice flashy fireworks with
- >my ET4000. Poor B.J. user won't be able to get patches and updates easily.
- >It took me almost three weeks to get my OS/2 package running just becuase I
- >couldn't get a hold of a driver update...
-
- You do have a point about the regular users not havign the facilities to
- get the patches, but I still think that his statement about NEEDING a
- 386/33 is off base. I guess I should be happy that OS/2 is getting some
- postiive press though!
-
- Srikanth
-