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- From: bdubbs@cs.tamu.edu (Bruce Dubbs)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Is OS/2 a dead end?
- Date: 22 Jan 1993 16:40:43 GMT
- Organization: Computer Science Department, Texas A&M University
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- References: <enk2.62.727572369@po.cwru.edu> <5JLqXB9w165w@tcscs.UUCP> <djg2.727715667@crux1.cit.cornell.edu>
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- In article <djg2.727715667@crux1.cit.cornell.edu> djg2@crux3.cit.cornell.edu (David J. Greenberger) writes:
- |tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood) writes:
- |
- |>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.
- |
- |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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- Sounds like a reboot without doing a shutdown to me. The system is
- doing a CHKDSK on all hard drives. I've had OS/2 2.0 on my system
- since last May, and I can count on one hand the number of times my
- system has done a CHKDSK on bootup -- and I reboot every day.
- -- Bruce
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- Bruce Dubbs | Oxymorons of note:
- bdubbs@neuron.tamu.edu | Honest Politician, Political Science,
- | Scrupulous Lawyer
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