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- From: chris@cad.gatech.edu (Chris McClellen)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: SMALL Excerpt from "Windows Sources"
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 23:31:07 -0500
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology, CAE/CAD Lab
- Lines: 51
- Message-ID: <1hr8mbINN58h@cae.cad.gatech.edu>
- References: <47798@ogicse.ogi.edu> <1992Dec30.031820.21424@netcom.com>
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- In <1992Dec30.031820.21424@netcom.com> timbol@netcom.com (Mike Timbol) writes:
-
- >In article <47798@ogicse.ogi.edu> francis@ese.ogi.edu (Francis Moraes) writes:
- >>In reference to a post by chris@cad.gatech.edu (Chris McClellen)
- >>timbol@netcom.com (Mike Timbol) writes:
- >>
-
- >The point is that the shipping NT should require 8 MB minimum, but this
- >minimum doesn't mean the same thing as the OS/2 minimum. As Petzold
- >suggested (although he may be pushing it) NT should be much more usable
- >in 8 MB (its stated minimum) than OS/2 is in 4 MB.
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- I read the article differently then. It seems he was stating that the
- 8 megs was a minimum if you want to run the system well. The speed
- of NT in 8 meg is comparable to the SPEED (im not talking features)
- of OS2 in 4 meg right now. (meaning: they both are slow as hell).
- So when he says the minimum for both os2 and NT is 8 meg.. or rather
- says youll WANT 8 megs for either system makes it sound like NT runs
- just as well in 8 megs as OS2 does ("well" means speedwise). This
- (in my view) makes petzold not look so bright. If a customer came
- to me and said "Petzold said NT & OS2 run the same in 8 megs," and
- I demoed both in 8 megs, Petzold would look stupid. Maybe I read
- the article different than you, but the statement he made was quite
- blunt, and exactly as I originally posted. The minimum (as petzold
- seems to have defined it) for NT should actually be a bit higher than
- 8 megs, which meansm BOTH companies are "not being honest."
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- >I didn't say he couldn't express his opinions, but posting things like
- >NT in 16 MB is the same as OS/2 in 8 MB means nothing when you don't
- >really know what you're talking about. I've sure he's heard a lot
- >about NT, but not all of it is necessarily true, so making comparisons
- >based on faulty information is meaningless. (Based on what he had
-
- I DID NOT SAY THAT. Typical of people to put words in others mouths.
- I SAID: "NT in 8 megs runs about as fast as OS2 in 4 megs." Big difference
- from what you claim I said. You dont know what you are talking about.
- My whole opinion was that petzold's article was garbage. However,
- I expected an NT bigot or supporter to retout my statements with the
- famous "You dont know what you are talking about..You are ignorant.."
- etc every time you say something they dont what to hear.
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- I was not spreading misinformation. I was giving an opinion about petzold's
- article. But alas, you probably didnt care. all you probably saw
- was NT vs OS2, and that the poster uses OS2 more than NT.
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