Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!samsung!olivea!mintaka!bloom-picayune.mit.edu!athena.mit.edu!mmshah From: mmshah@athena.mit.edu (Milan M Shah) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.misc Subject: Re: OS/2 2.0 is here! (speed of OS/2) Message-ID: <1991May10.165324.29175@athena.mit.edu> Date: 10 May 91 16:53:24 GMT References: <1991May9.160718.9381@watson.ibm.com> <3180@sparko.gwu.edu> Sender: news@athena.mit.edu (News system) Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 21 OK, I'll give in to the temptation to add to this noise. I am surprized that no one has mentioned what to me seems to be the best advantages of OS/2 (even v 1.3). The situation I am talking about, of course, is the one which elucidated the famous presidential comment: "Read my SIPPS; no new 386Maxes!" I believe that under OS/2, we get rid of all those layers of kludges called extended memory, conventional memory, expanded memory etc. Just imagine, no more loading things high and loading things low and loading things in midair. Just imagine a world where you can respond to "Out of memory" errors by going out and buying more memory. None of this hullabaloo about trying to find out if using certain range in high memory or upper memory is going to conflict with shadow ram or extended video ram. No more "can't run anything except twiddle-thumbs because network driver takes up 150 K". Milan .