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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Path: sparky!uunet!utcsri!geac!zooid!kovarski
- From: Mark Kovarski <kovarski@zooid.guild.org>
- Subject: Re: OS/2 bigot meets NT....
- Organization: ZOOiD BBS
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 21:56:17 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec24.215617.10946@zooid.guild.org>
- References: <1992Dec24.035348.26595@actrix.gen.nz> <1992Dec24.033418.28702@wam.umd.edu>
- Lines: 55
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- rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec24.035348.26595@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
- >>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.
- >
- >
- > As it should. 8 megs is the NT minimum.
- >
- > Plus, you *should expect crashes*. Installing any OS,
- > NT or OS/2, is not the same as just plugging in an HD
- > with the os installed. It must be configured for your hardware
- > and your motherboard.
- >
- > I should tell you some of what you get when moving
- > OS/2 by backing up to tape.
- >
- >
- >>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.
- >
- >
- > Add 8 more megs and reinstall the system from scratch, then
- > repost. As it stands, you're FUDding.
- >
- >
- >
- >--
- > "If you can't eat sand, why the hell are you living in a desert?"
- > Equality is a delusion, suffering is a fairy tale and God is a fantasy.
- > Buy American as if your job depended on it.
- > Blaming society for inequality is like blaming the sky for rain.
-
-
- Please explain to me one thing. I ran NT on two systems. Here is my
- configuration:
-
- a) 486/50DX with 16MB RAM, Graphics Ultra.
- b) 486/33DX with 32MB RAM, Ultra Pro.
-
- NT was slow on system a but performed comfortably with 32 MB RAM. On the other
- hand, on system a OS/2 flies, and I mean it. OS/2 with 32 MB is also fast,
- which is quite obvious. Did I also mention that I managed to crash NT in about
- 1.5 minutes. As I said, I am not longer supporting NT due to several reasons.
- I also talked to a person who runs the recent NT and he also runs it with 32
- MB RAM. LAN Manager NT requires a minimum of 16 MB of RAM.
-
- Please, could you tell someone like me why OS/2 users should switch to NT? I
- wish I could tell you otherwise but NT has a very limited future, if any at
- all. There is *no way* in the world that you can justify telling a user to
- spend hundreds of dollars to get additional RAM with accelerator cards just to
- run NT. Just trust me, NT doesn't offer ANYTHING to a user that OS/2 doesn't.
-
- Best Regards,
- Mark K.
-