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- From: mfraioli@grebyn.com (Marc Fraioli)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 bigot meets NT....
- Message-ID: <1992Dec27.171726.4660@grebyn.com>
- Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
- References: <1992Dec26.145826.21639@wam.umd.edu> <1992Dec26.192753.23157@actrix.gen.nz> <1992Dec27.011721.23160@unvax.union.edu>
- Date: Sun, 27 Dec 1992 17:17:26 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec27.011721.23160@unvax.union.edu> pallantj@unvax.union.edu (Joseph C. Pallante) writes:
- >I have a question....
- >
- >All this debate is over: Many, Many crashes because a PC has only
- >8 megs of RAM.
- >
- >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.
- >
- I believe that someone had suggested earlier the possibility of bugs in
- the virtual memory routines. This could certainly cause what you
- describe. Other than that, though, you're right-- the system should
- just run slower. In my experience, this is exactly what happens with
- Unix machines. I find Unix crashes to be *very* rare, even running in 8
- or 12 megs on a PC. (and BTW, I have used SCO ODT 1.1 Unix SVR3.2 on a
- 386/20 with 12megs of memory, and it performs quite well. That's
- running X windows, TCP/IP, and NFS too. So if NT runs as poorly as
- Steve describes in 8 megs, MS has their work cut out for them.)
- --
- Marc Fraioli
- mfraioli@grebyn.com (So I'm a minimalist...)
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