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- From: chris@cad.gatech.edu (Chris McClellen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: SMALL Exerpt from "Windows Sources"
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 12:54:48 -0500
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, CAE/CAD Lab
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- I was looking through a brand new magazine called Windows Sources.
- I came across an editorial by charles petzold where he says This
- about OS/2 and NT:
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- "In terms of realistic Hardware requirements, OS/2 2.0 and Windows NT
- are approximatly equivalent. For either operating system, you'll
- want a 33-Mhz 386 or 486 with at least 8 megs of memory and a hard
- disk exceeding 100 megabytes. That Microsoft is admitting this and
- IBM is not indicates merely that one compnay is being honest and
- the other isn't." Windows Sources, Feb 1992, pg 99.
-
- The article goes on about MS & IBM, constanly saying "this means one
- company is good, the other isnt," and of course its MS thats good, according
- to the article. YES, I KNOW the source is a windows magazine, but I
- just love it when they yap when they dont know what they are talking about.
-
- The above quoted paragraph shows Petzold's ignorance. He claims
- OS 2 2.0 NEEDS 8 megs to run. Well, OS/2 runs in 4 megs about as well
- as NT runs in 8 megs. NT Beta needs about 16 megs of memory, and alot
- of that 100 meg HD, if not all. Os/2 only takes 30 megs of that 100,
- so you end up with 70 left over. Microsoft "admitting it may
- take 8 megs" is an understatement. It takes lots more. Of course,
- this is yet another ZiffDavis publication, so what did we expect?
-
- So, Petzold should have said OS2 needs about 8 megs, where as NT needs
- about 16 megs. When he said 8 megs, he was stating NT's minimum, not
- OS/2's. ANd contrary to what he thinks, you WILL want more than 8 megs
- for NT, and a 486... I ran OS/2 on a 386/20 with 8 megs, and it was
- faster than windows on a comparable machine, and my apps ran
- faster under OS/2 than under DOS (my dos ones). So, you dony
- need a 33mhz.
-
- Ah well, I consider that a light article comming from a windows magazine.
- Also, its the premier issue of the magazine, and I guess it is pep
- talk for windows owners.. "Yeah guys... MS loves you all! Buy their lame
- systems!" Guess its just a reaffirmation for windows users that they
- are politcally correct or something.
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