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- From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir I Green)
- Subject: Re: Is OS/2 a dead end?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan24.235339.2747@news.columbia.edu>
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- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 23:53:39 GMT
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- In article <727900250rommel.root@jonas.gold.sub.org> rommel@jonas.gold.sub.org (Kai Uwe Rommel) writes:
- >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
-
- Not likely to be a problem for your average computer user :-)
- My reboot took less than 2 minutes after a hard reset.
- The computer crashed with a trap00D or E while testing SIO040.ZIP.
- HPFS partition of 200 MB. Around 2500 files. Probably a bit more
- "average".
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