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- From: pallantj@unvax.union.edu (Joseph C. Pallante)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 bigot meets NT....
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.011721.23160@unvax.union.edu>
- Organization: Union College, Schenectady, NY
- References: <1992Dec25.202426.19125@wam.umd.edu> <1992Dec25.232450.19632@actrix.gen.nz> <1992Dec26.145826.21639@wam.umd.edu> <1992Dec26.192753.23157@actrix.gen.nz>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 01:17:21 GMT
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- I have a question....
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- All this debate is over: Many, Many crashes because a PC has only
- 8 megs of RAM.
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- My question: Why does NT crash (or OS/2 for that matter) because of lack
- of enough RAM? I would expect it to be slow because the OS would have
- to manipulate the memory, do some swapping, etc... But, if it follows
- all the rules it should, theoreticaly, it should not crash. It should
- just take longer to do its job, due to the overhead of running on
- a machine with little memory.
-
- So... NT running on mimimal memory crashes. Now, I know what you are
- gonna say, 12 megs is the minimum. If 12 really is the minimum, you would
- think that MS would have prevented it from running it in any system
- under 12, right? If they can prevent it from installing on a system
- that has boot manager, surely they could prevent it from operating
- on a PC with less than 12, right?
-
- These are honest questions... Not trying to put down NT...
- I beleive OS/2 crashes more when it doesnt have enough memory also...
- Just curious why it happens.
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- Joe
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