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- From: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Is OS/2 a dead end?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.144539.4180@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 14:45:39 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan22.222421.4974@spcvxb.spc.edu> benezra_a@spcvxb.spc.edu writes:
- >> Average computer users will not be willing to or may not be able to
- >> copy with these "minor" glitches. When Windows or dos crashed and
- >> average computer user does a reboot, he's generally back at the dos
- >> command line within a minute or two (depending on his
- >> config/autoexec), or back at windows in another min 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?
-
- Perhaps he has a 65ms hard drive.
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