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- From: dab6@po.CWRU.Edu (Douglas A. Bell)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: NT Destined to Succeed??
- Date: 6 Jan 1993 20:17:43 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <1993Jan6.184720.321@solaris.rz.tu-clausthal.de> <1993Jan04.184825.3260@microsoft.com> <1993Jan5.040741.27996@midway.uchicago.edu> <1993Jan05.075016.28032@microsoft.com> <1993Jan5.234912.7841@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In a previous article, hochstae@allfiwib1.wiwi.uni-marburg.de (Christoph H. Hochstaetter) says:
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- >In <1993Jan5.234912.7841@midway.uchicago.edu> soh3@quads.uchicago.edu (min-woong sohn) writes:
- >>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.
-
- While the swap file space may have changed quite a bit, I can't say that
- there was a big difference in performace between the 6.30x betas and the
- GA product, (which is only version 6.307, after all).
-
- >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.
-
- I don't know about lan server, but with tcpip and the netware requester,
- os/2 2.0 runs fine in 8 meg. If I run something big, like run win/os2
- or borland c++, I start to swap heavily, but if I'm just running dos
- wordperfect and some telnet sessions, the wps responce it isn't measurably
- worse than my system with 16 megs after booting up.
- Boot-up does take about twice as long with only 8 megs.
-
- And don't forget, for the adventurous lot, you can always run os/2 without
- the workplace shell but with pm. This shaves about 2 megs off of the
- memory requirements.
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