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- From: harvey@waikato.ac.nz
- Newsgroups: nz.archives
- Subject: re: os2.1b (Should U update)
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.005217.13469@waikato.ac.nz>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 00:52:17 +1300
- References: <1993Jan27.004629.7467@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz> <m3q1XB2w165w@status.gen.nz>
- Organization: University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand
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- Well from my limited testing of 2.1 as compared to 2.0. It is almost
- unbreakable (some small bugs). The windows performance is nothing short of
- amazing. The migrate applications tool appears to be fixed (was buggy). Boot up
- is faster than before (but not by much). Has a new setting for DOS applications
- to allow you to specify and run unique autoexec.bats for each VDM. Runs a lot
- better on a 6 meg machine (no access to a 4 meg one alothough people are
- reporting that it is _much_ better). Swap file does not seam to grow as fast as
- before and very quickly settles back to 4megs (I have seen 7Megs now and 16Megs
- pre 2.1). Support for Trident, Et4000, ATI cards is now there + others I
- believe.
-
- Minuses
-
- Still slow scrolling. Doesn't always redraw screen corectly. Find in General
- (relating to changing the icon) is broken.
-
- Thats about all I have found so far 24 Hours. But I'll keep trying to break
- things and really push it.
-
- Also can some other people test this for me. If you are running 2.0GA and/or
- CSD or 2.1. Open and leave running at least 26 applications (any type
- Games,utils,applications,folders) This caused a repeatable crash with my
- machine pre 2.1b so I'd like to see if it was a bug.
-
- Thanks Mark Harvey
-
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