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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: To OS/2 or not to OS/2, *that* is the question...
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.173657.2986@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 17:36:57 GMT
- Article-I.D.: midway.1992Nov5.173657.2986
- References: <1992Oct31.221826.17187@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
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- In article <1992Oct31.221826.17187@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca> riehm@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Carl Riehm) writes:
- >I bought a copy of OS/2 last August, started to install it one night, ran
- >into (more or less trivial) problems, put it away and have just come back to
- >it now, thinking that I would try again. Then I see the troubles that the
- >CSD has caused and wonder just what IBM is up to... and then the current
- >issue of PC Magazine runs tests on OS/2 and DOS5/Windows3.1 and finds that
- >in almost all of them the DOS/Windows combination is faster, evidently
- >contradicting what I had been led to believe in this newsgroup.
- >What to think? I've got a working system and I just don't have the time to
- >spend fixing it if it doesn't work properly (it's a true blue system all the
- >way but still...). OK I know that PCMag is hostile to OS/2 and is a
- >mindless MS supporter but still - are their figures in error, and are their
- >tales of installation problems really not typical?
-
- Just on one point, the PC Magazine benchmarks were seriously flawed,
- in my opinion. When multitasking was tested, they tested with only
- Windows programs (e.g. Word and Excel running together), and they
- checked the "Separate Session" checkbox under OS/2. (Why? You've got
- me -- that was incredibly dumb, and immediately invalidated their
- results, because they were comparing apples and oranges.)
-
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