From: cscks@luxury.latrobe.edu.au (Kamal Shaker!!)
Newsgroups: aus.computers.ibm-pc
Subject: Re: New Computers
Date: 30 Aug 92 05:47:08 GMT
Organization: La Trobe University
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Jon.Biddell@unsw.edu.au (Jon Biddell) writes:
: In article <714168018.F00003@csource.oz.au> Darren.Gibbens@f159.n633.z3.fidonet.org (Darren Gibbens) writes:
: >From: Darren.Gibbens@f159.n633.z3.fidonet.org (Darren Gibbens)
: >Subject: New Computers
: >Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 00:20:00 +1000
: 
: >Hi, Christian.  Interesting reply to my reply! I thought I was advising someone
: >with the intention of buying a machine which will run OS/2. A 25Mhz 386 will run
: >OS/2, and so will an 'SX if you wanna get technical, but like I mentioned in my
: >reply, 8 meg of ram is absolutely mandatory. Running it on a slower machine than
: >a 33Mhz 386 will still let it "perform", but it's performance on a faster
: >processor is far superior. The whole idea of the guy who originally asked the
: >question was to set him straight on what was/is a good value-for-money package
: >to buy to be able to use OS/2. I don't think a 25Mhz machine is acceptable, but
: >that doesn't mean it won't work. That's what
: >I was trying to advise this guy. At the prices of new machines today, why buy
: >a 25Mhz machine that will not run OS/2, or anything else, anywhere near as fast
: >or "usable" as a 386-40, or even a 486? The biggest problem many people new to
: >computers face today is what type of machine to buy. I would not advise anyone
: >to buy an 'SX if they wanted to run OS/2 or Windows NT, but maybe you think
: >that's a matter of opinion.
: 
: Being an OS/2 developer, I can tell you that the MINIMUM usable machine is a 
: 386-40 with '387, and a 486-50 is even better.....  I have ine running here 
: now and OS/2 is CRAP on anything less that a 386/33, and even that is 
: pushing it...
: 

I have this feeling the way OS/2 runs depends on who install's it...
I installed it on my girlfriends 386-33/w 8 meg, and it ran just as
fast as windows, but then her father did it, and now it runs slow
as anything... oh well....

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