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- From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Is OS/2 a dead end?
- Keywords: So quoth Bill Gates
- Message-ID: <hatton.727755291@cgl.ucsf.edu>
- Date: 23 Jan 93 02:14:51 GMT
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- 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.
-
- It takes little time for an ordinary boot, but if you read his post, you'll
- note he's talking about "after a crash or unexpected shutdown" and he's
- absolutely right: if you have a crash, requiring a reset or cold boot, then
- the system will see that on boot, and examine the disk with chkdsk (don't
- remember what level, but I'll assume f3).
-
- If you have a BFD (big disk) then the chkdsk is going to take a long time
- to go thoroughly through the partition(s).
-
- I disagree that it would "disorient" someone; alarm, potentially, and
- annoy, certainly. But it does tell you what it's up to while it goes at it,
- so I don't see anyone getting too confused. And it's nice to know that the
- file system is intact before getting the system going. Just painful waiting
- for that assurance.
- --
- Tom Hatton
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