Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!vsi1!octopus!stever From: stever@Octopus.COM (Steve Resnick ) Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms Subject: Re: Query: Which would you recommend? Windows? or OS2 w/ PM? Message-ID: <1990Sep27.171411.21825@Octopus.COM> Date: 27 Sep 90 17:14:11 GMT References: <3311@mindlink.UUCP> <12206@chaph.usc.edu> Reply-To: stever@octopus.UUCP (Steve Resnick ) Organization: Octopus Enterprises, Cupertino CA Lines: 34 In article <12206@chaph.usc.edu> ajayshah@aludra.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes: >(On a long thread connected with OS/2) > >In case you haven't heard the news yet, OS/2 is dead. Microsoft >is "putting all it's wood behind one arrow" (to borrow a phrase >from Scott McNeally) and putting everything into Windows 3.1, 4, 5... That seems like a pretty stupid plan if you ask me. Any DOS based multi-tasking system is going to stink. It's not that MS DOS is a "bad" operating system, but an OS based on a single-tasking, 1MB chips, designed ten years ago is silly. MS DOS has serious problems with dealing with multi-tasking. This is very evident when running programs like DESQview, or Windows. Windows 3 is neat, it looks good, and it's slow as hell in comparison to OS/2 and PM. I run a BBS, and I can run the BBS under DOS/Windows, and under OS/2. I can't do much, however when running under Windows, because the system performance degrades by half. Under OS/2, I can run the BBS, call another BBS, run my C compiler, read mail, and do other things without killing my performace much. The VMM is a lot better under this 80286 operating system, versus the 80386 version of windows - the reason? MS DOS. You can't force a volkswagon to perform like a ferarri, unless you put a farrari engine and suspension into the volkswagon. This is what OS/2 does. When the time comes that I can no longer get OS/2 and supported products for it, I will run something else. Until then I will continue to use, and praise OS/2 - a product from a company I otherwise have little respect for. - Steve -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- steve.resnick@f105.n143.z1.FIDONET.ORG - or - apple!camphq!105!steve.resnick Flames, grammar errors, spelling errrors >/dev/nul ----------------------------------------------------------------------------