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- From: jliukkon@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Juha-Matti Liukkonen)
- Subject: Re: A survey: Your dream operating system
- Message-ID: <1992Dec11.204100.3556@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- References: <18323@mindlink.bc.ca> <Bz2MFB.BuB@inews.Intel.COM>
- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 20:41:00 GMT
- Lines: 32
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- dmarer@td2cad.intel.com (Dennis Marer) writes:
-
- >In article <18323@mindlink.bc.ca> Jeremy_Reimer@mindlink.bc.ca (Jeremy Reimer) writes:
- >>Dream operating system to totally replace MS-DOS? To be run on a 386+ PC?
- >>
- >>It's been done! OS/2 2.0!
-
- >It's just that most average 386+ systems don't have what it takes to run it.
- >It's been suggested to me (be someone who uses and likes OS/2) that 8MB are
- >just enough to run comfortably, any less presents performance problems.
- >The base memory space on most run-of-the-mill PCs I find in computer ads
- >start at 2MB...mine happens to have 4MB.
-
- >It's not that I'm capping on OS/2...I just think there exists the possibility
- >of something better.
-
- Agreed. Anybody remember Geos for the C64 - or the PC verion, PC-Geos?
- That was small, that was fast (tho' I remember it used only the Real
- mode in the PC) - but it didn't have the corporate muscle behind it. How
- come Macintosh owners survive with 40 Mb hard disks and I don't? (OS/2
- takes around 30 Mbytes by itself - and my DOS/Windows configuration eats
- up 15 Mbytes as well. Not much left of 40 Mb disk now is there..?)
-
- All I want is something that allows me to run a wysiwyg word processor -
- and lets me put that precious little "&"-sign at the end of the command
- line...
-
- Well, just my two bits.
- --
- Juha Liukkonen, aka jliukkon@cc.helsinki.fi
- University of Helsinki, Dept. of Lost Souls
- "Trust me, I know what I'm doing." - Sledge Hammer
-