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- From: jhrv@ellis.uchicago.edu (John M. Kim)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: TCP/IP for OS/2
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.232655.691@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 7 Nov 92 23:26:55 GMT
- References: <keyhazu00iUyQ5bXxL@andrew.cmu.edu> <JR5051.92Nov6212457@cehp17.coewl.cen.uiuc.edu> <1992Nov7.160237.23925@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
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- In article <1992Nov7.160237.23925@mksol.dseg.ti.com> mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:
- >
- >Now for my question. If I wanted to run OS/2 2.0, SLIP, X, and NFS on
- >a 386-25 with only 6 MB of memory, just how unbearably slow would it
- >be?
- >
- >[Probably a silly question, but I can dream, right?]
- >
-
- For small apps, it'll probably be ok. For anything major or lots of
- concurrent processes, expect a lot of thrashing. We run two PCs with
- OS/2 2.0 + TCP/IP + X + NFS and they both thrash quite a bit during
- bootup, but once that's over, most apps run pretty well. Occasionally
- large print jobs (spooled to a unix host) will slow down the machine
- to a point where it's almost unusable. We have emacs and TeX loaded
- from NFS drives on our Suns, and it's pretty slow but still usable (of
- course your definition of usable might be different from mine).
-
- One PC is a 386DX/40, 8MB, Trident in 800x600x16 mode. The other is a
- 386DX/25 with a 387/25, 9MB, Compaq VGA in 640x480x16. Both use
- 3com503 8 bit cards.
-
- John
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