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- Subject: OS/2 bigot meets NT: Update 2....
- Message-ID: <1992Dec26.195032.23415@actrix.gen.nz>
- From: Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz
- Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 19:50:32 GMT
- Sender: Steve.Withers@actrix.gen.nz (Steve Withers)
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- In article <1992Dec26.145420.21384@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
- > >
- > >Hi Erik. I guess our friend Yamanari doesn't know that under OS/2 any cache
- > >setting higher than 2048K is ignored......
- >
- > Now you're getting it. Now *take that se4tting and put it on
- > a *4* meg machine!
-
- Well......I took the hard disk home and tried it on my 386DX/40 with 8128K. It
- wouldn't run at all. It gets to just after where i enter the password and just
- before the Program Manager pops up......and locks. I tried booting about 20
- times.
-
- My 486 at work had 8384K....and NT *just* ran......
-
- So, 8 megs is truly the minimum. Which I find very interesting.....Having been
- and MVS systems programmer for several years, I have worked with MVS on a 4-meg
- 4341.
-
- Reading the Redbooks, I am coming to understand that a lot of the big-OS
- concepts that IBM has been applying for decades have gone into OS/2. Reading
- the info, OS/2 sounds like a desktop MVS/XA......
-
- Now I better understand why Microsoft is having trouble doing the same things
- in twice the amount of memory.
-
- NT: A desktop system with an 8-meg, I-can't-run-anything-else minimum is not
- on the expressway to success.........
-
- OS/2 provides almost all - but not quite - the same services in half the RAM
- and a good proportion less disk space.
-
- OK, this is the NT October beta. Fine, betas are crud. But these guys have a
- long way to go in order for NT to be anything like the next desktop OS. They
- aren't promoting it as such, anyway, so I guess they already know that.
-
- Whereas, OS/2 keeps getting faster, tighter, and just plain *better*. The 2.1
- beta I now have installed is very nice......and it hasn't crashed so
- far...(even though it's a beta.....)
-
- I think the 2.1 version of OS/2 will actually run pretty well in 6 megs. It
- just feels better. I might try it in 4 megs just to see what the diference
- really is.
-
- BTW...I have flagged the NT beta away for now. It's just too "un-ready". Maybe
- next week when I get my work machine to 16megs I'll have another go and see if
- it will run....
-
- 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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