NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30/NN_1992_30.iso/spool/comp/os/os2/advocacy/10400

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From: [e-mail]
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
Subject: Re: Here's some Advocacy for you.
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 15 Dec 92 23:28:12 EST
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Yamanari) writes:
>
>>to take too much memory.  Whenever NT can run in four megs or less...
>
>
>     Are you guys nuts?  This is the same type of argument used
>     by DesqView and Windows fans in the last year against OS/2.
>
>     If memory really was such a big deal, you wouldn't be using
>     OS/2.  [Besides, even if you pull all 8 1 meggers and
>     pop in 3 4 meggers that's only about $420, not $600...
>     and 12megs NT == 8 megs OS/2]
>
>     Can't anyone out there make a better argument than formatting
>     floppies (stupid) or 1/4th greater memory requirements?
>
>
> --
>  Snout: O Bottom, thou art chang'd!  What do I see on thee?
>  Bottom: What do you see?  You see an ass-head of your own, do you?
>  ---"I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they----
>  ----aren't even superficial"    --Nietzsche   ---------------------


    I can think of plenty of reasons to choose OS/2 over NT!  I
can't believe that you earlier said that NT will pretty much take out
OS/2, that's ridiculous.  OS/2 wasn't "dead" even before 2.0 and in
my opinion, 1.x was pitiful.OS/2 lets me boot up to other OS's if
I want.  Very useful for programming and such.  When I do a program
in Turbo Pascal (for example) I find it very useful to not have to
reboot several times  a day when a program I am writing bombs.  Windows
and DOS would ahve caused me to reload.  Also, look at all the options
you can do with the DOS emulation OS/2 gives you.  You can make any
app think you have a lot more memory than you do.  That will be particularly
useful when DOS apps start asking for 10 megs of memory (not yet but
I already have DOS apps that require 6 megs to run).  I can have OS/2
with only 6 megs of memory running a program that requires 10.  It won't
run well but I have that option (incidentally, I have 16 megs of memory
but the point is made).
    The Windows support under OS/2 certainly is better than the
current NT beta.  Key word is beta and the OS/2 beta ran windows terribly
so I wouldn't count NT out in that area but OS/2 beta ran windows a lot
faster than NT prsently does (OS/2's windows sessions just bombed a lot).
    The subject of memory requirements has been beat to death and
I really don't think that it is THAT much of a consideration.  To most
of our customers, more than 4 megs is simply a LOT.  Os/2 wants A LOT of
memory and so does NT.  After 8 megs of memory it doesn't make much
difference to them (as far as I can tell).
    IBM support is better than MS support in my experience.  IBM
support is almost obecessive.  If you crash OS/2, they will try to fix
it and even send you a patch for it if they can.  DOn't count on MS
to do that.
    Another and my last one for now, (and least compelling reason),
I like to play video games on my machine on occasion.  Don't ask NT
to do that at any real speed now or ever (straight from MS's rep).

                        -Brad