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- From: soh3@quads.uchicago.edu (min-woong sohn)
- Subject: Re: Is OS/2 a dead end?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.074107.20697@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Sociology, Univ. of Chicago
- References: <enk2.62.727572369@po.cwru.edu> <5JLqXB9w165w@tcscs.UUCP> <1993Jan22.222421.4974@spcvxb.spc.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 07:41:07 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.222421.4974@spcvxb.spc.edu> benezra_a@spcvxb.spc.edu 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.
- >
- >Are you kidding? 5 to 30 minutes?! Are you sure your computer is plugged in?
- >If that were true, there wouldn't be anyone here to talk to. Where did you
- >get this gem from? Redmond?
- >
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- When you do only soft reboot, it may take more than 5 minutes. I have
- had such an experience. Then I recycled power and it boot up without
- much delay. It did chkdsk though, but a very normal, speedy boot-up it
- was.
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