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- From: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
- Subject: Re: NT Destined to Succeed??
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.184720.321@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de>
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- Reply-To: hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter)
- Organization: Techn. Univ. Clausthal
- References: <1993Jan04.184825.3260@microsoft.com> <1993Jan5.040741.27996@midway.uchicago.edu> <1993Jan05.075016.28032@microsoft.com> <1993Jan5.234912.7841@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 18:47:20 GMT
-
- In <1993Jan5.234912.7841@midway.uchicago.edu> soh3@quads.uchicago.edu (min-woong sohn) writes:
- >Hey, you only have personal experience with a system with 12 megs of
- >memory and you'are calling Steve liar????
- >
- >Is NT really bootin up on 8 meg systems? Is there anybody who has
- >personal experience with this?
-
- Yes, I have tried it. Ok, admitted, the performance is very poor on 8 MB.
- But always remember, Windows NT contains lots of debug code and is not
- speed optimized yet.
-
- I tried an OS/2 2.0 beta 6.30x and installed TCP/IP and LAN-Server on it.
- This is the configuration you can compare to Windows NT. I had a 27 MB
- swapfile on a 16 MB machine. Now, that I am using the OS/2 2.0 GA, the
- same configuration with even the database manager installed, I have
- a swapfile of only 5 MB.
-
- If you run OS/2 2.0 GA (release version) on an 8 MB machine with TCP/IP
- and LAN-Server, the performance is really bad. So to compare OS/2 and NT.
- In a comparable configuration (Networking and TCP/IP), performance is
- bad with 8 MB and reasonable with 16 MB. The difference is, that Windows
- NT is not yet speed optimized, whereas OS/2 2.0 is.
-
- I really don't understand all that stuff about "Windows/NT eats up all
- my memory". It really doesn't seem to me, that it is requiring more
- memory than OS/2.
-
- We really have to wait, until we have the retail version of NT to compare
- performance and HW-resource usage. Everything else is just speculation.
-
- Christoph
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