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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!ericom!news
- From: etxlgnn@hfetxz30.ericsson.se
- Subject: Re: Grrr...2.0 can't be "this" slow, can it????
- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.055758.3240@ericsson.se>
- Sender: news@ericsson.se
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- Organization: Ericsson
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 05:57:58 GMT
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- In <1992Jul30.041907.19373@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> laird@stable.ecn.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird) writes:
-
- > At work, however, I decided to install v2.0 on a standalone
- > 386DX-25 today. Mildly: it sucks! I've got 8MB, and it's
- > awful. I'm running HPFS and all I see are disk accesses
- > when I do anything. Win-OS2 is a snail. DeScribe 3.0 drags
- > on and on.
-
- This configuration should work OK. I recommend that you get the
- new kernal which allows the swapfile to shrink. The cache should
- be 512K.
- >
- > Some of the workstations on the net are 386SX-20's. I (quite
- > literally) shudder to think about how those will perform.
- >
- My experience is that you need at least 12 Mbyte on a LAN workstation
- to get acceptable performance especially if you use both Communications
- Manager and the LAN Requester.
- /Goran
-