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- Subject: OS/2 bigot meets NT....
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.035348.26595@actrix.gen.nz>
- From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 03:53:48 GMT
- Sender: Steve.Withers@actrix.gen.nz (Steve Withers)
- Organization: Actrix Information Exchange
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- A co-worker of mine in Auckland has sent me his NT-bearing hard disk to play
- with over Xmas.
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- I am writing this from the NT Terminal program. I have beening using the
- system for about 20 minutes and it has crashed and burned twice in that time.
- The first time I was closing the Control Panel (having modified nothing) and
- had changed nothing.
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- The swap file is 27 megabytes and can eat up to a maximum of 77 megs. I am
- running it on a 486DX/25. After NT and the swap file, I have 35 megs free on
- the 125 meg drive. I have 8 megs of 70ns RAM and the system runs very much
- like OS/2 on 4 megs with no HPFS.
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- The second crash occurred when I tried to open the Disk Manager: the system
- locked solid and I had to hit the reset button.
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- That was in the first 10 minutes.
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- So far......I miss the WPS. If you like Win3.1...then obviously you will feel
- right at home on NT......but I never did like the Win3.1 interface.
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- I don't hink I am in any danger whatever of becoming an NT bigot based on what
- I have seen so far. Having gone from the OS/2 2.1 beta to the NT
- beta.....there is no real comparison.
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- Being an OS/2 bigot, NT would have to the *best* thing since sliced bread to
- lure me away......and right now it looks like a bag of flour. the bread is a
- long way off by the look of things.
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- Bye from NT! I want to get my OS/2 drive plugged back in.
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- Steve
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- Steve Withers - Wellington, New Zealand | On Sept. 19th, 88% of NZ voters opted
- Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz | for proportional representation. It
- +64 4 478 4714 | looks like we may get a more
- **** Happy user of OS/2 v2!! **** | democratic system "real soon now".
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