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Questions on OS2 2.0 from a _potential_ user. HELP !!!!

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From: Constantinos Malamas
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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Subject: Questions on OS2 2.0 from a _potential_ user. HELP !!!!
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Date: 18 Nov 92 18:03:06 GMT
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