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- From: linstee@dutecaj.et.tudelft.nl (Erik van Linstee)
- Subject: Re: More advertising
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.223140.25907@donau.et.tudelft.nl>
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- Organization: Delft University of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering
- References: <1992Dec29.135215.20084@panix.com> <1992Dec29.155440.23938@wam.umd.edu> <8230@lib.tmc.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 22:31:40 GMT
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- jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu (Jay Maynard) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Dec29.155440.23938@wam.umd.edu> rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
- >>>"With an operating system that can run all of your DOS, Windows, and OS/2
- >> ^^^
- >> Pull this word.
-
- >You're being unnecessarily pedantic - there's NO OS that meets the criterion
- >you're holding OS/2 up to.
-
- >> Can't we be honest? OS/2 takes more than 30 megs of HD space
-
- >Hahahaha. It can be installed quite nicely in less than 30.
-
- And let me add to that that I have it up and running on a 30M partition
- with a 2M swap file and 10M free space left. So I'll admit, WINOS2 is
- not part of this and neither are the OS2\APPS, but then, they aren't
- really part of the system.
-
- >> and a lot more than 4 megs of RAM. This is part of the problem--
- >> you can't solve it by promoting the same lies. Come on, OS/2
- >> *needs* at least 6 to function -- sluggishly! -- but 4 is a
-
- >It works just fine in 6. This is yet more FUD.
-
- >> joke (yes, I've tried it post SP). If IBM would allow you to boot
- >> w/o the WPS, it might be better, but that pretty much makes the
- >> system useless. (There's only so much benefit you get from OS/2
- >> wit one fullscreen prompt).
-
- >I guess you didn't try SET RUNWORKPLACE=CMD.EXE, then, did you? It allows you
- >to take advantage of everything but the WPS; in particular, you get all of the
- >PM support and multitasking facilities.
- >--
- >Jay Maynard, EMT-P, K5ZC, PP-ASEL | Never ascribe to malice that which can
- >jmaynard@oac.hsc.uth.tmc.edu | adequately be explained by stupidity.
- > "Brought to you by the letters O, S, and by the number 2." -- Mike Levis
- --
- Erik van Linstee | Delft University of Technology | I'll be back ...
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- We are god, 'cause only we can create the idea of his existence
- in our holy brains... (Yello)
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