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- From: mortenk@dhhalden.no (MORTEN KNUDSEN)
- Subject: Re: Is OS/2 a dead end?
- Message-ID: <mortenk.193.727993897@dhhalden.no>
- Keywords: So quoth Bill Gates
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- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 20:31:37 GMT
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- In article <hatton.727755291@cgl.ucsf.edu> hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton) writes:
- >From: hatton@socrates.ucsf.edu (Tom Hatton)
- >Subject: Re: Is OS/2 a dead end?
- >Keywords: So quoth Bill Gates
- >Date: 23 Jan 93 02:14:51 GMT
- >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).
- >
- No, not level f3. It dowsn't take that long.
-
- >If you have a BFD (big disk) then the chkdsk is going to take a long time
- >to go thoroughly through the partition(s).
- >
- Well, I have 2x200Meg, and it takes a whole lot less that 5 minutes,
- even after a _total_ crash. You will need about a zillion megs to
- get 30 minutes (at least).
-
- >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.
-
- The last UHPFS.DLL fix helps alot.
-
- >--
- >Tom Hatton
- >hatton@cgl.ucsf.edu
- >(415)-476-8693
-