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- From: dhbutler@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Your Conscience)
- Subject: Re: Is Falcon worth buying????
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.151745.18833@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 9 Sep 1992 15:17:45 GMT
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- >dollar in order to have the rights to use IBM patents. Will MultiTOS become
- >as nice as OS/2 2.0? NO, it will never be. The early beta versions of
- >MultiTOS were slow, unreliable and unstable. Nothing much has really changed.
- >IBM's OS/2 2.0 software devision employees 300 programmers while Atari has
- >only 3 (maybe a few more, they don't like to give this information away ;-)).
- >You can't say anything about OS/2 2.0 unless you sit down in front of a PC
- >and see it do its wonders. Forget about other OSs, OS/2 will be the way of
- >the future. Unless Unix Labs come up with their "Destiny OS", IBM is on the
- >road of victory. So far I have heard some of the new MultiTOS options and
- >they seemed to be borrowed from other GUIs.
-
- Well, I've sat down and used OS/2 here in the lab, and, while it is, in some
- ways, better than Windows, my opinion of both the products is still very poor.
- I mean, OS/2 takes 30 MEGS of hard drive if you install everything, and that
- does not include the swap file! Go to an OS/2 machine, move the mouse and drag
- a window, feels about as fast as your 8mhz ST doesn't it? Amazing, it's running
- on a 486 50mhz... Did you notice that when you dragged the window you
- (probably) had hard-drive access... just to move a window! At least, the 8 meg
- machine we use will often use the swap file for this simple thing. And talk
- about speed, I've seen Multi-Tos at work, and it was way-the-hell faster than
- OS/2 (and running on a 68000 at 16mhz, I know that supposedly it is not
- *supposed* to run on the 68000, but this version did!).
-
- I don't know what it is, but operating systems like OS/2, that take *humerous*
- amounts of hard disk and ram, and *still* operate slowly, don't seem like the
- wave of the future to me... I thought System 7 on the Mac was a hog, compared
- to OS/2 it's, it's, well, it's sure more streamlined that OS/2!
-
- OS/2 works no magic, it is huge and cumbersome and slow, just another case of
- the big guns trying to play catch up... and failing.
-
- It does look neat though! And the multitasking is a far-cry better than
- windows, and and and...
- ---------------------------------------------------------------------->
- |-) -David Butler- dhbutler@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
-
- - who now has a shorter .sig file due to complaints...
-
- ||| - FRANK ZAPPA for president! "One of his best qualifications is
- / | \ that at least he won't take it seriously." - Jammer
-