home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!UB.com!pacbell.com!decwrl!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!uwm.edu!src.honeywell.com!tcscs!zeta
- From: tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: Is OS/2 a dead end?
- Keywords: So quoth Bill Gates
- Message-ID: <g3R1XB3w165w@tcscs.UUCP>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 00:07:03 CST
- References: <1993Jan26.143829.3907@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Reply-To: zeta%tcscs@src.honeywell.com
- Organization: TCS Consulting Services
- Lines: 28
-
- dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
-
- > In article <5JLqXB9w165w@tcscs.UUCP> zeta%tcscs@src.honeywell.com writes:
- > >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.
- >
- > Only if you don't shut it down. And that's CHKDSK doing the slowdown.
- > RUnning CHKDSK after a crash is something that DOS users should do as
- > well, IMO. And I haven't had a system crash so bad that CTRL-ALT-DEL
- > couldn't get me out of it - CHKDSK doesn't have to run in that case.
-
- That's what I was saying. In all it takes my system roughly 4 minutes to
- reboot from a shut down or C-A-D. It takes 20 to 23 minutes normally,
- sometimes more, to boot from a crash.
-
- I've had several crashes that C-A-D wouldn't recover from. When I had some
- beta drivers (early SIO) and some other programs try use stuff that wasn't
- there (like the math co-processr), I'd get a TRAP error and a text screen
- telling me what the error was and some register information. C-A-D wouldn't
- do a thing. :( It's rare, but it has happened enough...
-
- Greg
-
- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.
- . TCS Consulting Services P.O. Box 600008 St. Paul, MN 55106-0008 .
- . ..!srcsip!tcscs!zeta ..!src.honeywell.com!tcscs!zeta .
- .-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.-=-.
-