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- From: bauwens@acs.ucalgary.ca (Luc Bauwens)
- Subject: Re: Udell's complaints about the WPS in the August Byte.
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- Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 03:04:23 GMT
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- In article <pathak-290792152306@virtual.mitre.org> pathak@mitre.org (Heeren Pathak) writes:
- >
- >> 1) the WPS is prone to crashes
- >
- >In my experience, the WPS is reasonably stable. It does crash once in a
- >while, but the occurence are very far apart. When a crash does occur, the
- >WPS automatically starts up again so it really isn't a big deal.
-
- I still experience about as many WPS crashes as I had in win3.0. Often
- when I start Softerm, after getting into the session manager and
- having selected a phonebook entry, I get a crash that requires a
- hard reboot (reset). Happens about 5% to 10% of the time. But it
- may be hardware-related since I had a similar problem with win3.0 and 3.1.
-
- As for the WPS starting up again automatically, *and I am talking
- about crashes of the WPS and not of OS/2, thus such that a soft
- boot works*, is there a way to set/change the time after which WPS
- restarts? Typically, a five minutes wait does not seem to work.
- (Once, however, I had a WPS crash while downloading something in
- Softerm. I went to bed and the next morning, the download had
- completed and WPS had restarted. But I can't afford to go to
- bed for the night each time the WPS crashes :-))
-
- >I don't know if it is quite that slow but the WPS is slow and it is a real
- >memory hog. I would hope that the CSD has a "WPS Lite" that is faster and
- >smaller.
-
- I think Windows has its GUI running at a higher priority than
- applications, and that in Windows, backgrounded apps run at an even
- lower priority.
-
- So, the GUI being somewhat sluggish gives a feeling of slowness that may
- be somewhat misleading. As for running apps, I find that when running
- one single cpu-intensive program with either OS/2 or 3.1 otherwise
- unloaded, there is little difference. For graphics, I seem to find
- OS/2 slightly faster. I haven't tried systematically running more than one
- program. But my impression is that there is a substantial deterioration
- with both 2.0 and 3.1, that is, two copies of the same program run
- substantially slower that half the speed of each alone (but I got only
- 8 Megs, and swapping may be a factor).
-
- As for the GUI, has it improved since the LA, or am I getting used
- to it being sluggish? (And BTW, I find HP-Vue on an HP9000/710 to be
- even more sluggish. But run a floating-point intensive stuff...)
-
- Win-OS2 remains unacceptably slow. But with the new HP laserjet
- drivers, it has improved somewhat. I hope that with the (formerly
- June, now) September CSD, with the 3.1 stuff and a faster graphics
- engine, it will finally be good enough to get rid of DOS and
- Windows altogether (as other folks here, I still have DOS+3.1
- specifically to run WfW2.0a).
-
- >Despite its problems, the I really love the WPS. When OSs in beta, I was
- >shopping for a new computer. I really didn't want to get an Intel box but
- >once I saw OS/2 (and the WPS), I ended up buying a 486.
-
- But why, even after having applied the patch (IBM1FLPY), does my 360k
- drive still misbehave? It seems to think all diskettes are
- copy-protected. Any clue?
-
- Luc B
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