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- From: hess@rzdspc14.informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Hauke Hess)
- Subject: Re: How to make OS/2 look bad ...
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- Sender: news@informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Mr. News)
- Organization: University of Hamburg, FRG
- References: <1992Nov7.173054.6379@wam.umd.edu> <4310@copper.Denver.Colorado.EDU> <strobl.721229440@gmd.de> <1992Nov8.210307.29172@muddcs.claremont.edu> <strobl.721261132@gmd.de>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 08:03:04 GMT
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- strobl@gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl) writes:
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- >In <1992Nov8.210307.29172@muddcs.claremont.edu> tlilley@jarthur.claremont.edu (Thomas (Ted) Lilley) writes:
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- >>It blew donkey dicks, to use a colorful turn of expression.
- >>Far worse than OS/2 in 4 megs (I should know). But the point here isn't
- >>who's satisfied with running which OS on which class of machine. The
- >>original complaint was that calling 4 megs a minimum for OS/2 is stupid.
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- >Perhaps. But calling 1024 KByte a minimum for Windows isn't. For running
- >a 300 K application (or two 150 K applications) Windows on a 1M machine
- >is a much better environment than OS/2 on a 4M machine. Especially
- >if you hard disk is slow.
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- Tell me, what application is satisfied with 150-300KB? The most recent WinFract? Minefield?
- Tetris? Be honest, on a 4MB OS/2 2.0 machine, a 150-300KB application won`t do any
- harm to performance, it will fly after it is loaded.
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- Hauke
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