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- From: bdubbs@cs.tamu.edu (Bruce Dubbs)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Best Hardware for OS2
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 15:50:03 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
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- In article <1993Jan12.030858.25284@athena.mit.edu> michael@amo.mit.edu (Michael Courtney) writes:
- |
- | 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?
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- Are you planning to run as part of a network or stand-alone? What
- software do you want to run? Do you have a lot of particular Windows
- or DOS software?
-
- Exactly how important is speed? Would a 486-33 do? If so, I think
- you could get an IBM valuepoint for <$2000. With an XGA grapicics
- adaptor, speed probably wouldn't be that great a consideration unless
- you have some particular CPU intensive software.
- -- Bruce
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