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From: navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David C. Navas)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga bashing
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Date: 25 Jun 91 17:35:36 GMT
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In article <1151@stewart.UUCP> jerry@stewart.UUCP (Jerry Shekhel) writes:
>rjc@wookumz.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
>>
>>OS/2, well,
>>does the phrase, slow and bloated pig with no outstanding support
>>ring a bell? 
>>
>
>Does the phrase, "ignorant goon with no clue as to what he's talking about"
>ring a bell, Ray?  OS/2 today (version 1.3) is small (much smaller than UNIX),
>fast, and solid.  It doesn't have as much support as DOS/Windows, or even UNIX,
>but that doesn't mean that it's not a superior OS.  Why don't you quote some
>benchmarks or memory usage estimates, Ray, and then maybe your post will mean
>something?

Well, I dunno about Ray, but I can do something about that. :)

My girlfriend works for California Edison in the department that is
trying to port their software to OS/2.  When she got there in May, seems
that two of her six megs were wacked, so for a couple of days she was
stuck in four megs.  Apparently, from all of her screaming and complaining
over the phone, four megs wasn't quite sufficient to do a blasted thing
on it.  [Yes, it's a current version]

Oh, and she also has a 60% full 300meg drive.  I'll let you draw whatever
conclusions you'd like, but I think Ray's phrase "slow and bloated"
isn't that far off base.

In addition, I've heard complaints about the DOS "compatibility mode",
which also does not do simple things like 'CD'ing into existing
directories, etc.  Of course, these are directories with 400-500 files
instead of the usual 20 or 30, but that shouldn't make a diff., right?

This doesn't mean it isn't a good OS.  Just that it wouldn't suit most
Amigaphiles.

David Navas                                   navas@cory.berkeley.edu
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