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- From: brtmac@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (Brett McCoy)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.research
- Subject: Re: WINDOWS/NT
- Message-ID: <190ivbINNscq@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 23:30:51 GMT
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- >> [...]
- >
- >Replace "NT" with "OS/2". Thumb back a few of years through your old
- >and now obviously forgotten magazines. Any articles look familiar to
- >what you're hearing right now from the industry "experts"?
-
- When OS/2 came along it needed at a minimum, 2M of RAM, and you
- couldn't really do anything with less than 4M. It also needed
- something like 10M or 15M of disk space. At this time a typical
- machine as a 286 with 1M of RAM and a 40M hard drive. OS/2 just would
- not run on it. A system with 100M disk and 4M or more of RAM was
- beyond the general user.
-
- There is an add on TV right now for Best Buy selling a 486SX-20 with
- 4M of RAM, 100+M hard drive, SVGA, etc, for $1200. Today's average,
- or even below average machine can run OS/2, Windows/NT, 386BSD, Linux,
- or just about anything else. You may want something faster to get
- good performance, but at least you *can* run it enough to decide that
- you like it and want to get a bigger machine to run it better.
-
- This is why NT is likely to replace DOS now while OS/2 couldn't do it
- a couple years ago.
-
- ++Brett;
-