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- Path: sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!convex!convex!bros
- From: Andrew Bros <bros@convex.COM>
- Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 - almost, but not quite
- Summary: patches available
- Originator: bros@neptune.convex.com
- Sender: usenet@news.eng.convex.com (news access account)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep4.134647.4942@news.eng.convex.com>
- Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1992 13:46:47 GMT
- Reply-To: bros@convex.COM (Andrew Bros)
- References: <DNZ8PB1w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca> <4b*vHqeqe9@atlantis.psu.edu> <ec*vH**qe9@atlantis.psu.edu>
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- In article <ec*vH**qe9@atlantis.psu.edu> boltz@chopin.psu.edu (Mark Boltz) writes:
- >Having used a copy of OS/2 2.0 (the final release) on a friend's 386DX-25, I
- >must say that IBM has come a long way, but have some stuff to work out. Even
- >tho the machine had 8MB, it was almost constantly swapping stuff to disk when
- >asked to do more than about 4 tasks at once. (At least it has multi-tasking.)
- >The biggest problem I have with this, aside from wear and tear, is the swap
- >file created grows as applications are started, but won't shrink after closing
- >them; rather only after shutdown.
-
- There is a patch available via anonymous ftp for this problem. You
- can get it from ftp-os2.nmsu.edu (128.123.35.151). The directory is
- /pub/os2/2.0/patches, and you should grab 00fixes.doc, which is a list
- of the available patches, and os2krn.zoo, which should fix your
- swapfile problem.
-
- IBM has also set up an anonymous ftp site on software.watson.ibm.com
- (129.34.139.5) which has the latest fixes as well as some
- employee-written OS/2 software.
- --
- Andrew Bros bros@convex.com
- System Integration Group Convex Computer Corporation
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