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- From: 925wardell@gw.wmich.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Oh my God! Help my friend not buy an IBM!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.153413.6523@gw.wmich.edu>
- Date: 22 Nov 92 15:34:13 EST
- References: <1992Nov16.221925.5528@ncsu.edu> <1992Nov18.214730.12952@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com> <1992Nov19.224148.6464@gw.wmich.edu> <1992Nov20.213308.24111@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com>
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- In article <1992Nov20.213308.24111@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com>, jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999) writes:
- > Quoth 925wardell@gw.wmich.edu:
- > ]> If you don't want OS/2 to use 30 megs of disk space, then just
- > ]> don't add teh Windows 3.x support, DOS support, and the pitiful little
- > ]> apps that come with it. OS/2 can take up as little as 3 megs of
- > ]> disk space if you want. But if you want the graphica user enviornment
- > ]> then you have to add a few megs. Add the applets that come with it
- > ]> then you add more, etc. A complete OS/2 installation minus all DOS
- > ]> support and Windows support but with the wrok place shell, and such
- > ]> takes 12 megs of disk space total.
- >
- > Damn, you're making my case for me! In case 1, if I were to strip ADos down
- > to a non-gui environment, I suspect that my data would be in the low 400K
- > if not less. I could have the full GUI up and running on one 880K disk.
- > And it looks like my estimates of @20 megs for a full OS/2 system was
- > a bit generous... if it takes 12 M to get it up with no DOS or Winders
- > support, I can imagine the overhead of adding them! Not 8 megs or less,
- > I suppose. 30 meg? Yow.
- >
- > ]> Similarly, if Amigados was expected to Run MS-Windows and MS-Dos
- > ]> you too would have to add the over 18 megabytes of garbabge to your hard
- > ]> drive.
- >
- > Don't be so sure of that... while I have not given it the Hell Test, I
- > hear that Cross-PC is very good ad running DOS applications, and I suspect
- > it comes in at less then a meg WITH all drivers. That leaves 17 megs to
- > play with for Winders support and I have a feeling it wouldn't all be
- > required.
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-
- Sigh. I was not talking about "drivers". I am talkinga bout
- the garbage that comes with ms-dos. os/2 comes with that same junk.
- Things like "mode.com" "backup.exe" gwbasic, etc. The stuff that
- if you have os/2 you don't need. Same with windows, their silly
- word processor "write" takes up almost a megabyte in space. You see
- what I mean now?
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- > Jeff Grimmett [SuperBitMap BBS] * fido!1:202/1401.0 [619-460-7290]
- > jeff_grimmett@f1401.n202.z1.fidonet.org * jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com
- > The opinions expressed in this message are thoughtful, reasoned, and logical.
- > It goes without saying that they are not those of my employer.
- > *******************************************************************************
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