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- From: bill@snoopy (Bill Poitras)
- Subject: Re: 32 Bit HPFS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.211556.21289@msi.com>
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- References: <OECHERUO.93Jan6130323@mothra.syr.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 21:15:56 GMT
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- Okechukwu Chima Echeruo (oecheruo@mothra.syr.EDU) wrote:
- : In article <1993Jan3.232926.3100@midway.uchicago.edu> sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples) writes:
- : I have to disagree here with Tim.
- : What you appear to be saying about 32bit device driver support is that well
- : it is not really "needed" and that having system-wide 32bit device drivers
- : will not improve os/2 performance especially with regard to network/HD
- : devices.
-
- I think you are wanting 32-bit code for the sake of 32-bit code without
- really caring what it buys you. When analyzing the complexity of a
- program (how fast it runs), you have to take into account how often it is
- called. The 32-bit parts of OS/2 that exist are the most important,
- while the 16-bit parts are not so important. Certain device drivers
- could fall into this catagory.
-
- : I am suprised that this is the prevailing IBM attitude. While Microsoft is
- : playing up the "32bitness" of WindowsNT (vapourware), IBM is telling anxious
- : OS/2 users that 32bit is not all that great. Personally, If I want to run
- : a hybrid 32/16bit OS I can always switch back to Windows 3.1
-
- 1) Microsoft is playing up the 32bitness of Window NT for marketing
- reasons. Pure and simple.
-
- 2) Even though both OS/2 2.0 and Windows 3.1 both have 16-bit components,
- OS/2 is far superior in many areas. For one, all program in OS/2 2.0 are
- preemptively multitasked, in Windows 3.1, all Windows programs are
- cooperatively multitasked, while the DOS sessions are preemptively
- multitasked. Also, the OS/2 2.0 scheduler is probably much better than
- Windows 3.1. OS/2 DOS support is far superior, and OS/2 2.0 in general
- has more memory protection. If you stop using OS/2 2.0 because it is a
- hybrid operating system, then you are making a big mistake.
-
- : If IBM cannot fully support the 32bit design of it's own product how does
- : it expect ISVs to come running out with native 32bit OS/2 2.0 applications
- : and device drivers?
-
- IBM is working on it. I would rather see IBM get Win-OS/2 3.1, MMPM/2,
- more display drivers and memory and speed improvements working, then
- stamping out ALL 16-bit. Maybe its just me, but I think that is the
- better way to go.
-
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