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- From: kaul@vnet.ibm.com
- Subject: Re: Kernel Roulette
- Sender: @watson.ibm.com
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.190351.42547@watson.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 19:03:51 GMT
- News-Software: IBM OS/2 PM RN (NR/2) v0.16 by O. Vishnepolsky and R. Rogers
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- Reply-To: kaul@vnet.ibm.com
- References: <1992Nov16.181114.7476@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU> <1992Nov19.181557.27605@cbnews.cb.att.com>
- Organization: IBM T. J. Watson Research
-
- In <1992Nov19.181557.27605@cbnews.cb.att.com> shurr@cbnews.cb.att.com (larry.a.shurr) writes:
- > ... My
- >biggest remaining complaint is the slowness of VIO & VDM windowed
- >sessions.
-
- I agree, especially with the ET4000 chipset. The XGA-2 is fast enough,
- but I haven't seen any other drivers I like the speed of. (Personal
- opinion and not to toot our horn.)
-
- > I think IBM has created a nearly impossible
- >testing situation, perhaps hoping that the variations are not as
- >great as they seem, in reality, to be.
-
- The problem comes when you try and introduce a sophisticated multitasking
- system into a market where systems vary tremendously in quality and to
- which the "base" operating system has been so unsophisticated. It's
- amazing to me that OS/2 runs on as many machines with as few problems as
- it does.
-
- >And I still want faster video - here's hoping for favorable pricing
- >on the ISA XGA-2.
-
- Count me in that, too. I want one for my home system permanently, not
- the take-home-and-test one.
-
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- kaul@vnet.ibm.com
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