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Article #857Questions on OS2 2.0 from a _potential_ user. HELP !!!!
From: Constantinos Malamas
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:03
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 18:03
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I am the prud owner of a new 486DX33, and I am seriosly considering installing OS/2 2.0 as my OS... Before I spend $125 on the package though, I wanna some input by you, fellow netters: o Due to a small (comparatively) HD (107MB), I will probably install Stacker 2.0, that I used on my old machine. Now I _heard_ that OS2 requires ~30MB for its swap files. Is this true? How close is this figure to actual performance? most importantly-- will OS2 be able to access the Stacker drive to dump its swap files (unlike Windows)? are this files so compressed that this is not efficient anyway? o How does OS2 run DOS and Windows apps? Does it emulate these two exceptional os's (NOT!!!! :))...) or does it require the actual DOS and Windows OS software to be installed on the HD? o How much space will the OS2 files take up? o How power-intensive is OS2 anyway? Will it take up so much uf the CPU that really BIG programms (Mathematica 2.0 for DOS, for example) will not run fast enough? Thanx in advance... Costas Malamas________________________________________________________________ Georgia Institute of Technology Internet: gt7692b@prism.gatech.edu
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!prism!gt7692b From: gt7692b@prism.gatech.EDU (Constantinos Malamas) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2,comp.os.os2.misc Subject: Questions on OS2 2.0 from a _potential_ user. HELP !!!! Message-ID: <75294@hydra.gatech.EDU> Date: 18 Nov 92 18:03:06 GMT Followup-To: comp.os.os2 Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology Lines: 24