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Article #2731Re: OS/2 2.0 is here! (speed of OS/2)
From: Milan M Shah
Date: Fri, 10 May 1991 16:53
Date: Fri, 10 May 1991 16:53
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OK, I'll give in to the temptation to add to this noise. I am surprized that
no one has mentioned what to me seems to be the best advantages of OS/2 (even
v 1.3).
The situation I am talking about, of course, is the one which elucidated the
famous presidential comment:
"Read my SIPPS; no new 386Maxes!"
I believe that under OS/2, we get rid of all those layers of kludges
called extended memory, conventional memory, expanded memory etc. Just
imagine, no more loading things high and loading things low and loading things
in midair. Just imagine a world where you can respond to "Out of memory" errors
by going out and buying more memory. None of this hullabaloo about trying to
find out if using certain range in high memory or upper memory is going to
conflict with shadow ram or extended video ram. No more "can't run anything
except twiddle-thumbs because network driver takes up 150 K".
Milan
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