From: rmb5@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (ROBERT M. BALLENGER)
Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
Subject: Re: Couldn't stick it out...
Date: 28 Jul 92 02:44:47 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <1992Jul27.103456.1@kean.ucs.mun.ca>, roger@kean.ucs.mun.ca writes:
>>       For all it's "32 bit advanced coding", just about everything I do is
>> slower than the equivalent operation in Windows.  Booting, starting Apps (inc
luding native OS/2 apps), moving windows, opening drives and directories,
>> shutting down; all of these tasks are quite noticably slower in 2.0 than in
>> Windows.  Why? I don't know.
>
>>      OS/2 will be on my system again someday; most likely as soon as 32 bit
>> gr-engine and 3.1 support are added (along with MANY other fixes, I hope.)
>> It is good, but not ready for prime-time (to paraphrase the concensus of the
>> RAGS).

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>>                 Mike Crandall            | "I'm NOT perfect... yet."
>>             crandall@spock.usc.edu       |
>>       USC Dept. of Aerospace Engineering |                       -MacGyver
>
>
>       Just to say that I agree with the tone of your posting. The software
>is not yet in a form fit to be released to the general public. Too many
>strange things happen. Too many crashes. And, as you point out, too slow
>(on a 486/33, 8Mb, 200 HD).  I'm still struggling with it, more out of a sense
>of challenge than anything else.  Lets hope IBM can fix it before too long or
>it's dead (as far as the general computing public, as opposed to the kind of
>people that post to this newsgroup).
>
>Roger C. Green,        Faculty of Medicine                      Phone: (709)737
-6884
>Memorial University , St. John's, Newfoundland.          FAX  : (709)737-7010
>

OK, I just can't resist to post a reply.  I installed OS/2 2.0 on my Gateway
486sx 25MHz; ATI ULTRA, 200MB HD and 8MB RAM the first of June.  Prior to
installing OS/2 2.0 I had used MS Windows for years, yes long before 3.0
arrived.  I use my computer at least one hour every day, and many days up to
18 hours, as a MIS PhD student sometimes I feel that I am permanently attached
to my PC.  I run alot on MS Window based applications, Word for Windows,
EXCEL, Harvard Graphics, Quicken, Turbo Tax, Smalltalk/V etc.  In addition I
run a number of pure DOS applications Dbase, FoxPro 2.0, Soritec, university
supplied comm package to the mainframes, Prolog, VP-expert, etc, etc,

The point of all of this is that I am using a very standard installation, I
have tweeked very little mainly b/c I just got the red books, but I really
haven't felt the need. To Date I have had **ONE***, I repeat *ONE*, system
trap error, and very few (3 or 4) other types of system errors.  I machine and
the OS have been running flawlessly.  I multitask all the time, complies,
coping, downloads, long print job etc, while I am doing something else.  In
fact I am backing up while I am writing this.

But how is the performance you may ask, excellent!!!!  It's far better than
3.1 windows on the surface, and the multitasking is by far superior.  All I
can say is that my experience with OS/2 has been nothing but pleasant.  I
don't have it on the machine in my office and I really miss it, I am
far more productive with it....and that is the real bottom line!

Bob Ballenger, MIS PhD student - Lehigh University