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- From: Mahoney@emdisle.FIDONET.ORG (Mike Mahoney)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: BENCHMARKING Windows and OS/2
- Message-ID: <210.2B380FF4@emdisle.FIDONET.ORG>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 92 20:39:04 PDT
- Organization: The Emerald Isle BBS, Tucson, AZ (602) 749-8638
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- In a message of <Dec 18 11:02> (Brian Sturgill) writes to All:
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- >Exact numbers are not available to me yet, but on a stock IBM PS/2
- >Model 57 with 16 MB of RAM and standard VGA, the relative Winmarks
- >were approximately as follows:
- >
- >Windows 3.1 on DOS 5.02 100%
- >OS/2 2.0x, FS Win-OS/2, Not "Optimized" 95%
- >Windows NT Beta 40%
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- BS>One point, you were very fair about describing what you were testing, but
- BS>left out one point that might not be understood by a newcomer.
- BS>What you were comparing was an OS/2 beta that is supposed to be out
- BS>this month, with a Windows NT beta that is supposed to come out 5-7 months
- BS>from now. Doubtless there will be substantial improvement in the NT
- BS>figures.
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- The version of OS/2 he tested is the pre-load version. It's not a beta.
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