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- From: whiles@nswc.navy.mil (William Scott Hiles x1568)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Has anyone run OS2 on loadstar, insight, or fastdata
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.141946.1746@relay.nswc.navy.mil>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 14:19:46 GMT
- Sender: news@relay.nswc.navy.mil
- Reply-To: whiles@nswc.navy.mil
- Organization: Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division
- Lines: 55
-
- I am looking into buying a 486DX33 from either loadstar, insight, or
- fastdata. After calling each of the vendors I did not get a convencing
- feeling that OS2 would run on these computers.
-
- If anyone has comments on these computers (or other computers) I would
- appreciate your comments.
-
- Additionally, if anyone is interested in this, I would like to propose
- the creation of a statistics sheet which would list the following
- information for computers running OS2:
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- | vendor name | phone number | video | hard drive | cdrom | rating (1-4) | buy again |
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
- |Joes Comp. |800-joe-comp |tsing |Adaptek SCSI|none |0 - 000 | yes: 000 |
- | | |SVGA | | |1 - 000 | no: 000 |
- | | | | | |2 - 000 | |
- | | | | | |3 - 000 | |
- | | | | | |4 - 000 | |
- | | | | | |no OS2 - 000 | |
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- The vendor name, phone number, video, hard drive, and cdrom is self explanatory.
- The ratings would be "0: video incompatibilities", "1: drive/controller
- incompatibilities", "2: cdrom incompatibilities", "3: system incompatibilities",
- "4: no problems at all", "no OS2: will not run OS2 at all". These ratings would
- indicate the number of people with this configuration who have had problems or
- are otherwise satisfied. The final catagory lists the number of people who
- would or would not buy this system again.
-
- I realize that there is a list of computers that has been tested with OS2, but
- I also realize that a number of people have computers which are not on that list
- which do run OS2. It is anticipated that this table would be long, but it would
- provide a good basis for potential OS2 users and new buyers to avoid problems.
- The idea for this list came from a similar table for video equipment on another
- news group.
-
- If there is sufficient response for a reasonable sampling of computers to be
- created, I will post an updated table each month to this group.
-
- If you are interested in participating please send an email message to
- whiles@relay.nswc.navy.mil with the information contained in the table.
- If you have additional comments about the computer or your experience
- send that along too and it will be posted at the end of the table.
-
- If something similar to this already exists, please post a message so that
- I can withdraw this table.
-
- ---
- Scott Hiles
- whiles@relay.nswc.navy.mil
-
- Standard disclaimer:
- The opinions expressed are those of my own and do not necessarily
- reflect those of the DOD or the Navy. I accept full responsibility.
-