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- From: lindor@eng.umd.edu (Lindor Eric Henrickson)
- Subject: Re: Windows NT vs OS/2: Does NT worth the wait?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan07.062700.25213@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Thu, 07 Jan 93 06:27:00 GMT
- Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park
- References: <79270@hydra.gatech.EDU>
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- In article <79270@hydra.gatech.EDU> gt7692b@prism.gatech.EDU (Constantinos Malamas) writes:
- >
- >I got a 486DX33 and I
- >want an OS that makes some real use of the monster under the hood and has
- >nothing to do with a command line :)).... I really like OS/2 as a concept and
- >'feel' and I prefer Windows's look, but before I go out and spend around $300
- >in mem expansion (I got a sorry 4MB) and OS/2, I need some input on this
- >so-talked-about Win NT... How much more of an OS is NT compared to 3.1 and OS2?
- >Does it multitasking feel like 3.1 or OS2? How well does it perform? Most
- >importantly, what are its hardware requirements? (one of the reasons I am
- >having cold feet about OS2 is the magnificent 15MB for minimum installation NOT
- >counting the swap files...) When is NT expected approx? So many OSs, just one
- >PC.... Thanx everybody in advance....
- >
- >
- >Costas Malamas________________________________________________________________
- >Georgia Institute of Technology
- >Internet: gt7692b@prism.gatech.edu
-
- I've heard that NT will require min. 16MB RAM (practically speaking, that is),
- whereas I am happily running OS/2 on a 486/33MHz with only 8MB RAM.
- Furthermore, I can't imagine that NT will take up less than 15MB disk space
- (but to be honest, I don't really know).
-
- LH
- lindor@eng.umd.edu
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