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- Subject: Re: OS/2 bigot meets NT....
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.232450.19632@actrix.gen.nz>
- From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 23:24:50 GMT
- Sender: Steve.Withers@actrix.gen.nz (Steve Withers)
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- In article <1992Dec25.202426.19125@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
- > In article <1992Dec25.180324.15834@donau.et.tudelft.nl> linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee) writes:
-
- > No, but the normal cache setting for OS/2 is
- > a poor choice for anyone with 8 megs or more.
- >
- > We can assume that either NT is the same (and the original
- > user, with 16 megs, has adjusted it) or that it auto-adjusts.
- > If the later, then my argument is eliminated.
-
- Do you know NT auto-adjusts anything? As I said in an earlier follow-up, the
- NT I am using was originally installed on an 8 meg system......so if it
- auto-adjusts upwards....it should auto-adjust downwords too....right?
-
- > I do not know whether it does or not. But I am *certain*
- > that if it does not, the previous owner would have fixed it
- > for his 16 meg system.
-
- I can assure you that he did not.
-
- > You're thinking like a dos user. It is not a bad idea to have
- > the system auto-adjust and *allow* the user to fix it when you're
- > talking about something that's suposed to be user friendly.
-
- OS/2 ignores cache setting amount higher that 2048K.....
-
- > >Let me see now. Having OS/2 installed on a 6 megger and then
- > >adjusting the memory settings of the 16 meg system would
- > >result in the exact same setup right?
- >
- > ...only if you then took *that* setup (the one optimized for
- > 16) and moved it *back* to a 6 megger w/o *any* change.
-
- This simply wasn't the case....the NT Iam using was installed on 8 megs....ad
- is running on 8 megs.....
-
- > >I am sure this is easy enough to understand.
- >
-
- Offensive and patronising comments like this one beg the application of the
- wisdom they purport to dispense.
-
- > Think a little more before such comments.
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-
- Steve
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