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- From: mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us (Matthew Staben)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Grrr...2.0 can't be "this" slow, can it????
- Message-ID: <XkFqoB1w165w@comtch.spk.wa.us>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 15:58:56 GMT
- References: <1992Jul30.055758.3240@ericsson.se>
- Sender: bbs@comtch.spk.wa.us (Waffle bbs)
- Organization: Waffle BBS at CompuTech Spokane, Washington
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- etxlgnn@hfetxz30.ericsson.se writes:
-
- > In <1992Jul30.041907.19373@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> laird@stable.ecn.purdue.ed
- >
- > > 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
-
-
- A 386DX-25 should handle OS/2 2.0 fairly quickly. I first used OS/2
- 2.0 on a 386DX-20 (PC Designs, 1987) on a 4 meg system and it was
- bearable (using FAT). In fact, booting up on the same 4 meg system
- with the WPS disabled, OS/2 2.0 ran as fast as 1.3 ever did, and in
- some cases, even faster. I'd check out the I/O card in that machine
- and see what its doing. When I installed on a 486/33 8 meg system
- things were going real slooooooooow (slower than the 386) until
- I swapped the I/O card (the com/parallel ports). Some of the new
- ones just don't work right.
-
-
- mstaben@comtch.spk.wa.us
-
- - A warning to anyone, still in command...
-