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- From: ekl@fics.uucp
- Subject: Re: superVGA (and misc top-blowing)
- Organization: Kvam data as
- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 13:39:06 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.133906.25329@fics.uucp>
- References: <1992Aug13.151742.18779@cam-orl.co.uk> <1992Aug20.143405.5035@gw.wmich.edu> <1992Aug20.134609.9708@hellgate.utah.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug20.134609.9708@hellgate.utah.edu> brian%jaguar.cs.utah.edu@cs.utah.edu (Brian Sturgill) writes:
-
- >... Look at how snappy
- >the 32-bit stuff is... it's already faster than OS/2.
-
- That is not my experience, running both os/2 2.0 *and* windows NT on
- my computer (386/40, 16 MB ram). I even give NT the advantage(?) of
- running plain VGA (IT DOESN'T SUPPORT MY CARD!) while os/2 runs 800*600.
-
- >I don't know if you were in the EEP for OS/2, but I promise the LA and
- >6.304 betas were MUCH slower than the GA. NT is already beating
- >OS/2 performance-wise and NT is on FAT with unoptimized code and drivers
- >AND ITS NOT EVEN IN BETA YET.
-
- >I imagine OS/2's problem is largely due to the lack of the 32-bit graphics,
- >hopefully IBM will get that out this year (it was promised for March).
- >
- >BTW, I'm running NT on a 33Mhz 386DX with 20 megs of memory (and before
- >you say yeah sure, 20 megs no wonder... that's exactly the same size system
- >I do OS/2 development on at work.) Currently I dual boot 3.1 as the
- >16-bit support under NT is still slow... about the level of the
- >OS/2 LA release, though at least it is already seemless. (LA, and for
- >people with decent graphics cards, GA[the current version of OS/2]!!!;
- >did/does not have seemless 16-bit Windows support.)
- >
- >Brian
-
- I also have no problem with the NT beta. It is where it should be, and it
- may very well be delivered around years-end.
-
- One thing that we may very well experience, though, is that NT apps do not
- take advantage of the environment. Source code compatibility with Win 3.x
- is often touted as *the* main advantage of NT over os/2 2.0. To achieve
- that, you cannot use things like threads etc. Thus, NT apps may end up
- being only 32-bit Windows apps. OS/2 2.0 apps, though, are now being
- rewritten to take advantage of the operating system. When delivered, they
- will support threads etc. This means that os/2 2.0 apps *may* be better
- than NT apps.
-
- OK, so this is a bunch of speculations, but that's where the world is
- today. It's gonna be a fun fall!
-
- Eirik
-