Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!van-bc!ubc-cs!unixg.ubc.ca!cheddar.ucs.ubc.ca!ballard From: ballard@cheddar.ucs.ubc.ca (Alan Ballard) Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc Subject: Re: Latest OS/2 Version (THANKS/SUMMARY) Message-ID: <1990Nov28.224528.23784@unixg.ubc.ca> Date: 28 Nov 90 22:45:28 GMT References: <1990Nov21.143846.18347@cside1.uucp> <1990Nov28.141751.6791@mathrt0.math.chalmers.se> <1905@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Sender: news@unixg.ubc.ca (Usenet News Account) Reply-To: ballard@cheddar.ucs.ubc.ca (Alan Ballard) Organization: UBC Computing Centre, Vancouver, B.C., Canada Lines: 26 In article <1905@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> lairdkb@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Kyler Laird) writes: >... asked him about the lower >system requirements of 1.3. (I have a Dell laptop w/4MB RAM.) He wasn't too >impressed. Said that although 2MB is sufficient just to run, loading the DB >and Comm. Managers overloads the system. Hey, don't make the mistake of equating OS/2 S.E. with OS/2 E.E. IBMers tend to think everybody is using E.E. The resource requirements for E.E. are *much* greater than those of S.E. For 1.2SE, 2MB would work, but about 6MB was what you really wanted. For 1.2EE, I think you needed about 4MB minimum, and I've heard indications 10MB was really necessary to use DB and Comm Mgr. 1.3 may have tightened things up quite a bit, but don't expect miracles. The claim of 2MB only applied to S.E. (i.e *no* DB or Comm Mgr.) I've run OS/2 1.2 S.E. in 2MB; it worked reasonably well. I haven't had a chance to try 1.3 yet, but since they are supposed to have reduced the memory requirements from 1.2, I wouldn't be surprised if it it could work quite nicely. Alan Ballard | Internet: ballard@ucs.ubc.ca University Computing Services | Bitnet: USERAB1@UBCMTSG University of British Columbia | Phone: 604-228-3074 Vancouver B.C. Canada V6R 1W5 | Fax: 604-228-5116