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- From: caliaro@avalon.physik.unizh.ch (Aurelio Caliaro)
- Subject: Re: Best Hardware for OS2
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 08:40:44 GMT
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- Michael Courtney (michael@amo.mit.edu) wrote:
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- : I am preparing to buy a 486DX2-66 system with 8 or 16 Meg RAM
- : and a big hard disk, SVGA and the works. I would like to have as
- : little difficulty as possible in running OS2 2.x. I do not mind spending
- : some time setting the system up and configuring everything properly,
- : but I want a system that will hardly ever (once a month at most) crash
- : once I have it configured properly. Is it likely that I can accomplish
- : this on a non-IBM system such as Gateway 2000 or Zeos? Is this even
- : possible on the IBM PSValuepoint system? How much of an advantage
- : does IBM hardware have when running OS2?
- : Is crashing only once a month too much to ask of OS2? Is Unix
- : what I really want?
- : Thanks in advance for your suggestions.
-
- Well... I do not think Unix is what you want :-) There is a 386/40 here that
- runs with Unix, and it crashes at least 2 or 3 times a day :-)))))
- With OS/2 I crash mostly once a day, and in many months I had just one crash
- that is NOT related to a full HD (I have a very small HD). This problem should
- not appear if your HD is -l-a-r-g-e-, so OS/2 is what you need :-).
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- Aurelio Caliaro
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