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- From: gt7692b@prism.gatech.EDU (Constantinos Malamas)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2,comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Questions on OS2 2.0 from a _potential_ user. HELP !!!!
- Message-ID: <75294@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 18 Nov 92 18:03:06 GMT
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- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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- I am the prud owner of a new 486DX33, and I am seriosly
- considering installing OS/2 2.0 as my OS... Before I spend $125 on the
- package though, I wanna some input by you, fellow netters:
- o Due to a small (comparatively) HD (107MB), I will probably
- install Stacker 2.0, that I used on my old machine. Now I _heard_ that OS2
- requires ~30MB for its swap files. Is this true? How close is this figure
- to actual performance? most importantly-- will OS2 be able to access the
- Stacker drive to dump its swap files (unlike Windows)? are this files so
- compressed that this is not efficient anyway?
- o How does OS2 run DOS and Windows apps? Does it emulate these
- two exceptional os's (NOT!!!! :))...) or does it require the actual DOS
- and Windows OS software to be installed on the HD?
- o How much space will the OS2 files take up?
- o How power-intensive is OS2 anyway? Will it take up so much uf
- the CPU that really BIG programms (Mathematica 2.0 for DOS, for example) will
- not run fast enough?
- Thanx in advance...
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- Costas Malamas________________________________________________________________
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- Internet: gt7692b@prism.gatech.edu
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