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Dan Cable (dcable@nyx.cs.du.edu) wrote:
OS/2> You might want to just wander over to the OS2 newsgroups and look around
OS/2> before getting one of the Zeos systems that you were quoting the prices
OS/2> of. That operating system wants lots of memory, lots of harddisk and lots
OS/2> of CPU speed. There are also problems with certain video boards and other
OS/2> perpherals (especially SCSI stuff). That, unfortunately, is one of the
OS/2> problems that you get with open architecture.

That is not true.  OS/2 wants "lots" of RAM only by PC standards.  The
operating system takes up between 18 and 35 megs of disk depending on
what features you want available.  That is par for the course for a
decent OS.  As for processor speed, I have seen OS/2 run nicely on
a 386/16mhz box.  RAM is the critical factor (just like unix).  If
you have 8megs or more (and why not when it costs $30/meg???) there
are no more speed problems.

Re:  open architecture problems

I couldn't agree more.  It is difficult to support all of the
different devices, but at least they are trying instead of
forcing you into using their hardware (like Atari).

Followups to comp.os.os2.advocacy....

Cheers,

Chris

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