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Article #17320Re: Running OS/2 on Pentium machines
From: David Shepherd
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 1994 12:02
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 1994 12:02
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Eric Tsui (eric@cs.su.oz.au) wrote: : Just to gather some opinion about running OS/2 on a Pentium machine... : Is it very very fast ? Any known problems ? HPFS performing ok ? etc. Didn't IBM recompile parts of OS/2 with Pentium optimisations for use on Pentiums ... in which case it should run better than expected on a Pentium as it will be running Pentium optimised code rather than 486 optimised code. I may be misremembering something though ! -- David Shepherd, INMOS ltd, 1000 Aztec West, Almondsbury, Bristol BS12 4SQ email: des@inmos.co.uk tel: +44 (0)454 611 638 [n.b. this message from account at SRF/PACT - please email to inmos.co.uk]
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1044c2,c113e99c2e67d20c X-Google-Attributes: gid1044c2,public X-Google-Thread: 10cd94,c113e99c2e67d20c X-Google-Attributes: gid10cd94,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-08-18 05:05:42 PST Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,bit.listserv.os2-l Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!hookup!swrinde!howland.reston.ans.net!agate!doc.ic.ac.uk!warwick!bsmail!talisker!des From: des@pact.srf.ac.uk (David Shepherd) Subject: Re: Running OS/2 on Pentium machines Message-ID: <CuqC3I.7LB@info.bris.ac.uk> Followup-To: comp.os.os2.misc,bit.listserv.os2-l Sender: usenet@info.bris.ac.uk (Usenet news owner) Nntp-Posting-Host: talisker.pact.srf.ac.uk Organization: University of Bristol, England X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] References: <32uhnu$lua@staff.cs.su.oz.au> Date: Thu, 18 Aug 1994 12:02:05 GMT Lines: 17