🚀 go-pugleaf

ianbaker@magna.com.au (Ian R. Baker) writes:

>...
>Also we are manufacturers specialising in building systems running OS/2, and 
>in our experience of thousands of OS/2 installs, involving about 1500 unique 
>configurations, we have seen many components that do not measure up to the 
>needs of any multi-tasking system, and in particular OS/2.  In relation to 486 
>motherboards, we have tested particularly by stressing (maintaining 100% load 
>for hours) about 85 different motherboards, only 3 ran without a hitch.  When 
>it came to Pentium (586) motherboards, we tested about 23 motherboards, only 2 
>were great, with another 4 good.  BTW the 3 486 motherboards that worked just 
>great were all from the 1 manufacturer (Ocean Office Automation from Hong Kong 
>branded as OCTEK DCA motherboards), and the most advanced of these, the DCA2 
>uses 20ns 72 pin Cache SIMM RAM as well as conventional 72 pin SIMM RAM, and 
>running the great OS/2 system with an AMD 486DX4-100 they keep pace with 
>Pentium 90 systems (at a whole lot less money$$$).  The Pentium version is 
>also due out in a matter of weeks now.

Are there companies in the USA doing preloads of OS/2 and taking care
to get it right like this?  Next spring, I hope to be buying an OS/2
machine for my home (I run OS/2 on my office machine now, but my home
machine is nowhere near minimum OS/2 standards).  Given that people have
been reporting that IBM Aptivas with OS/2 preloaded aren't that good, I
wish I had more confidence that the system I get will work well.

(I expect in any case it'll work better than Windows, but that's not the
same as working well!)
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