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- From: rmk@frog.CRDS.COM (Rick Kelly)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: OS/2 bigot meets NT....
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.070638.15582@frog.CRDS.COM>
- Date: 28 Dec 92 07:06:38 GMT
- References: <1992Dec26.192753.23157@actrix.gen.nz> <1992Dec27.011721.23160@unvax.union.edu> <1992Dec27.171726.4660@grebyn.com>
- Organization: Charles River Data Systems
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- In article <1992Dec27.171726.4660@grebyn.com> mfraioli@grebyn.com (Marc Fraioli) writes:
- >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.)
-
-
- Just as an aside, my home system, rmkhome.UUCP, feeds news to other systems.
- One of the systems was a 386SX/16 that ran ESIX SVR4 with X-11 in 4 megs of
- memory for 9 months before the sysop upgraded to a 386DX/40 with 16 megs.
-
- The system was slow, but he was running his modem at 19,200 baud without
- dropping characters, feeding news to 5 other sites, and had 3 login terminals.
- And he never crashed. Up for 9 months, 24 hours a day.
-