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From: paulc@microsoft.UUCP (Paul Canniff 2/1011)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Is there an 8514A driver for Win386?
Message-ID: <5019@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 89 03:04:54 GMT
References: <16736@cup.portal.com> <16842@cup.portal.com>
Reply-To: paulc@microsoft.UUCP (Paul Canniff 2/1011)
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Sheesh!  I'm just grubbing through the net, find some 8514 stuff, and
WHAM more MS bashing.  But hey, he's gonna run LanMan, must be OK
deep down.

In article <16842@cup.portal.com> jxh@cup.portal.com (Jim - Hickstein) writes:
>Microsoft:  Don't you guys ever buy or consider or test with anything but the
>maximum configuration you can get your hands on?  Why does OS/2 REQUIRE FOUR
>MEGABYTES OF RAM to avoid swapping when one types something?  (God help me
>when I try to get LanMan Server and SQL Server running.  Together.)  Didn't
>they tell you that the 8-bit-deep 8514A has an OPTIONAL, EXTRA-COST memory
>board attached to it?  Do you own any 8088 machines?  (Granted, I bought an
>8086 way back when...)  Do you have a BUDGET?  Do you have trouble thinking
>up more ways to SPEND MY MONEY?
>
>Come on, you guys, wake up!

Hey, that hurts!  Would a company that didn't care about budgets
and old machines, sell something like the Mach-20?  You can even
run OS/2 on it.  Now aren't you sorry you threw away that 8086?

And yes, LanMan server runs fine in 4MB of RAM.  SQL, I don't
use, and so cannot give a first-hand review of the performance in
such a configuration.

As always, nothing I say is attributable to Microsoft, or
in fact to me, if pressed.