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- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Path: sparky!uunet!grebyn!daily!mfraioli
- From: mfraioli@grebyn.com (Marc Fraioli)
- Subject: Re: OS/2 bigot meets NT....
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.220819.16552@grebyn.com>
- Organization: Grebyn Timesharing
- References: <1992Dec24.035348.26595@actrix.gen.nz> <1992Dec24.033418.28702@wam.umd.edu> <1992Dec28.053808.14975@frog.CRDS.COM>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:08:19 GMT
- Lines: 47
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- In article <1992Dec28.053808.14975@frog.CRDS.COM> rmk@frog.CRDS.COM (Rick Kelly) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec24.033418.28702@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec24.035348.26595@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
- >>>the 125 meg drive. I have 8 megs of 70ns RAM and the system runs very much
- >>>like OS/2 on 4 megs with no HPFS.
- >>
- >>
- >> As it should. 8 megs is the NT minimum.
- >>
- >> Plus, you *should expect crashes*. Installing any OS,
- >> NT or OS/2, is not the same as just plugging in an HD
- >> with the os installed. It must be configured for your hardware
- >> and your motherboard.
- >>
- >> I should tell you some of what you get when moving
- >> OS/2 by backing up to tape.
- >>
- >>
- >>>I don't hink I am in any danger whatever of becoming an NT bigot based on what
- >>>I have seen so far. Having gone from the OS/2 2.1 beta to the NT
- >>>beta.....there is no real comparison.
- >>
- >>
- >> Add 8 more megs and reinstall the system from scratch, then
- >> repost. As it stands, you're FUDding.
- >
- >
- >This is an interesting observation. I commonly move hard drives loaded with
- >UNIX between Intel based systems with differing hardware. I have never had a
- >problem that could be attributed to this evil practice and I have been doing
- >it for years.
- >
- >
- >I haven't tried the same thing with OS/2, but I wouldn't expect any problem.
- >
- >
- >If you have a PC clone, and the motherboard dies leaving all the other bits
- >of hardware intact, then you should be able to drop another motherboard
- >into the machine, and boot it up again.
- >
- This exact situation occured where I work with a 386 running SCO. We
- replaced the motherboard with a new one, which contained a different
- manufacturer's BIOS, and had no problems. We also constanly swap hard
- disks on Sun SPARCstations, and have never had a problem there either.
- --
- Marc Fraioli
- mfraioli@grebyn.com (So I'm a minimalist...)
-