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- From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: SMALL Excerpt from "Windows Sources"
- Date: 30 Dec 1992 14:47:53 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <1992Dec30.031820.21424@netcom.com> <47798@ogicse.ogi.edu>
- Reply-To: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
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- In a previous article, timbol@netcom.com (Mike Timbol) says:
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- >>This brings up a few points:
- >>
- >>1. Certainly one would want at least 8 meg of ram to run OS/2 well. The
- >> NT users on this group have made it clear that one would want 16 meg
- >> of ram to run NT. Are you stating that this is wrong and that one
- >> can run NT well with 8 meg of ram? If not then I don't see the
- >> problem; NT _does_ require more ram than OS/2.
- >
- >I didn't say that NT doesn't require more RAM than OS/2, I just said
- >that it doesn't REQUIRE 16 MB (as many people like to suggest). I only
- >have a 12 MB system, so I can assure you that it doesn't require 16.
- >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.
-
- It "should be much more useable" in 8 megs?
- Because Petzold never jumps to conclusions?
- Because you listened to one too many net.rumors?
- Because your crystal ball says it will work better?
- Because Bill Gates visited you in a dream and told you?
- Because it is stated in the US constitution?
- Because it is our God given right to have it work better?
-
- What do you base this imperatve "should" on?
-
- When you say that it must work much better, it makes it sound like you
- are conluding a logical argument in which you offered facts and nice
- things like that. But here, you just state your opinion that that
- windows NT should work much better. In fact, you argue this through
- the entire thread with your only 'fact' being that NT seems usable to you
- with 12 megs of memory, which is at best a highly subjective and mostly
- irrelevent statement.
-
- This group is getting to an all time low for lack of factual content.
- I don't even look at the 'communist' thread anymore.
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