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- From: enk2@po.cwru.edu (Erik Kovach)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc,comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: Is A 386DX/40 w/cache fast enough?
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 18:36:53 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University
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- References: <1992Nov19.171403.740@digi.lonestar.org>
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- In article <1992Nov19.171403.740@digi.lonestar.org> mswilson@digi.lonestar.org (Michael S. Wilson) writes:
- >I am interested in running OS/2 2.0. I have heard mixed responses
- >from my colleagues as to whether a 386DX/40 w/128K cache and 16
- >MB of RAM could run my applications fast enough. What I will be
- >doing with the system is running a BBS (dialout-dialin comm driver)
- >at up to 19.2K baud. At the same time, I would like to be able to
- >use the system in the foreground for C++ programming (compiling)
- >and possibly another DOS session with BBS software running another
- >modem line. The programming and compiling would only happen
- >rarely, so I just wonder how many modem line (DOS sessions) I could
- >effectively run.
-
- I think you will do fine. Get a fast hard drive, though. That is
- what bogs me down with several processes. But you have a whopping
- 16MB of RAM...I run only 8MB. My system slows after about three or
- four sessions (DOS, Windows, or OS/2), but I think you will sigificantly
- improve over that with that much RAM.
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