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- From: rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Is OS/2 a dead end?
- Message-ID: <727900250rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 18:30:50 GMT
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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.
-
- He probably meant CHKDSK's time to check HPFS partitions after a hard
- crash. If you have, for example, a 1GB disk with HPFS exclusively and
- have, say, 25000 files on it, a reboot after not properly shutting
- down the HPFS partitions will take about 5 minutes.
-
- Kai Uwe Rommel
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