Re: OS/2 slower that dos 5.0?

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From: Alan J. Brumbaugh
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 23:32

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jbayer@ispi.COM (Jonathan Bayer) writes:

>ws523669@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (William Speiser) writes:

>>Can any of you pc gurus give me a hand?
>>I have an i386dx25 with 8megs.
>>I recently tried to install OS/2 and noticed a few minutes into the installation
>>that my hard disk started to sound weird. (Buzing intead of clicking? What else
>>can I say?) After it was completely installed (taking 4 hours). I noticed that
>> my machine was running much, much slower than with
>>dos. It took 15+ minutes to boot.

>>It was painfully slow the DIR command took longer to acess my hard disk than it
>>takes for floppies.


>There is a known problem with OS/2 and MFM drives.  Get the OS/2 FAQ and
>read it (look in comp.sys.os2).  I had the problem and the FAQ fixed
>it for me, but I don't have it handy.

Actually, it is in comp.os.os2.misc.
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