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- From: tlilley@jarthur.claremont.edu (Thomas (Ted) Lilley)
- Subject: Re: How to make OS/2 look bad ...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.091920.15928@muddcs.claremont.edu>
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- Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
- References: <strobl.721229440@gmd.de> <1992Nov8.210307.29172@muddcs.claremont.edu> <strobl.721261132@gmd.de>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 09:19:20 GMT
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- In article <strobl.721261132@gmd.de> strobl@gmd.de (Wolfgang Strobl) writes:
-
- >>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.
- >
- >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.
-
- Blech! Didn't you read what I wrote? Since you edited the main point out,
- I'll say it again: Anybody who complains that minimum requirements don't
- run satisfactorily is a dork. I don't really care whether Win or OS/2 runs
- better on 1 or 4 megs respectively. They both blow hard on min reqs.
-
- 'Nuf said.
-
- Ted
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