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From: james@bigtex.uucp (James Van Artsdalen)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.os.misc
Subject: Re: Reducing system calls overhead
Message-ID: <7699@bigtex.uucp>
Date: 7 Sep 88 23:13:03 GMT
References: <21606@ccicpg.UUCP> <1316@ast.cs.vu.nl> <29@usl-pc.usl.edu>
Reply-To: james@bigtex.UUCP (James Van Artsdalen)
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In article <29@usl-pc.usl.edu>, jpd@usl-pc.UUCP (DugalJP) wrote:

> [..] OS/2 does indeed have great possibilities, BUT only when the superior
> features of the 386 processor are used.  Doesn't OS/2 use only techniques
> possible on the 286?

Indeed OS/2 uses only 286 features.  But this isn't nearly a big a
problem as the file system: OS/2 uses the MS-DOS 3.x file system!  Not
only is this slow, but it limits the capacity of any logical drive to
32meg.  Even MS-DOS 4.0 can do better than this....
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