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- From: dhbutler@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Your Conscience)
- Subject: Re: Is Falcon worth buying????
- Message-ID: <1992Sep10.185931.5470@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 10 Sep 1992 18:59:31 GMT
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- >You can configure ANYTHING in OS/2 2.0, including what you want to install.
- >My swap file doesn't exceed 2 MB. You must be joking when saying, "it feels
- >like a 8 mhz ST." Have you really tried it. I see NO speed decreases in OS/2
- >at all. As a matter of fact, I am running it on a 486/50 MHz DX with 16MB
- >RAM and ATI Graphics Ultra. It is as fast as a TT with NVDI loaded in. The
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- Yes, I've used it, in fact, I can step over right now and use it on a 50mzh
- 486, I'll grab a window and move it, and I bet it won't be as fast as the ST, I
- bet it even uses the swap file just to move that little window around, I'll go
- check and be right back...
-
- OK, well, the screen display *is* snappier than I remembered, but certainly not
- *faster* than an ST with Quick ST III installed, but I have to admit I may have
- understated the speed, but not by much! I was absolutely correct about the disk
- swap, I opened Drive C, grabbed the window, and dragged it into the upper left
- hand corner of the screen, it accessed the hard drive just to do this.
-
- I can't say I *hate* OS/2 as much as I do Windows, but you must be joking when
- you say it is "as fast as a TT with NVDI loaded in". :-)
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- |-! -David Butler- dhbutler@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu
-
- - And now a .sig sure to insult (or at least baffle) 95% of all computer users:
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- ||| - Dos and Macintosh = Standardization and Stagnation - //
- / | \ - Atari and Commodore = Innovation and Invention - \//
-