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- From: thg@cam-orl.co.uk (Tim Glauert)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Windows NT vs OS/2: Does NT worth the wait?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan7.175913.22752@cam-orl.co.uk>
- Date: 7 Jan 93 17:59:13 GMT
- References: <79270@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1993Jan7.151207.16053@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>
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- In article <1993Jan7.151207.16053@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU>, rew3q@holmes.acc.Virginia.EDU (Russell E. Wolfe) writes:
- |> NT's disk space for full install: @ 60 Meg
- |> NT's suggested swap file size: @ 25 meg
- |>
- |> These figures are from my short encounter with the NT beta
- |> released in late october.
-
- It must have been a very short encounter. My C:\WINNT is 41Meg, the swap
- file is 15Meg and the entire drive has less than 60Meg in use.
-
- (The swap file is big because I have Excel, Word, Acces and PowerPoint loaded
- and running)
-
- |> The machine was a 486/33 with 16 meg of RAM.
- |> I say @ because I don't remember the EXACT numbers,
- |> but these are real close. If I remember correctly, the Minumum
- |> swap file it would allow was 10 meg.
-
- On my 20Meg machine the minimum swap file size is 2Meg, so it should be at
- most 7Meg on a 16Meg machine!
-
- |> Needless to say OS/2 is still on my machine, NT is not.
-