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From: hunter@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au (James Gardiner [hunter])
Newsgroups: comp.arch
Subject: Re: PW review of IBM workstation
Message-ID: <1990Dec15.010143.9614@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au>
Date: 15 Dec 90 01:01:43 GMT
References: <28775@usc>
Organization: Phoenix ComSystem. Public UNIX Melbourne Australia.
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In <28775@usc> ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes:


>On page 39, the December issue of Personal Workstation apparently
>benchmarks the IO performance of the RS/6000 using OS/2!!

>Knowing OS/2 is safely dead and buried where all terrible OSes
For a dead OS, here in Aust, I hear about many companies developing
using it and only IT!  OS/2 Is used by some Big companies around here
so OS/2 will probably stay around in the shadows and one day emerge
with something to offer.
>belong, I was very amazed by this, until I discovered that the
>same pictures also show numbers for the SLC and the SS1.  So it
>must be a screwup.  Do you know where the O word fits into these
>pictures?
I did read that IBM where porting OS/2 to RISK based stations
(as even a suped up 386 has trouble driving it.  The overhead is just
to much and makes it unusable)  If you where IBM and had developed this
OS, spending MILLIONS opon MILLIONS,  would not you try anything to
get it off the ground if it was failing on its PLANNED platform.
OS/2 probably does run on 90% of risk stations.

Hunter
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