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- From: djg2@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (David J. Greenberger)
- Subject: Re: Is OS/2 a dead end?
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- Keywords: So quoth Bill Gates
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 15:14:27 GMT
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- tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood) writes:
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- >or so. With OS/2, when it reboots, particularly after a crash or unexpected
- >shutdown, it takes upwards of 5 to 30 minutes depending on your hard drive
- >size and configuration. One time of that happening and your average computer
- >user is going to be disoriented.
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- Upwards of 5 to 30 minutes?! How much RAM do you have? I have 16 MB on a
- 486/33, and it *never* takes more than one or two minutes for OS/2 to boot up.
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