From: mg@elan (Michael Golan)
Subject: Re: Couldn't stick it out...
Organization: Princeton University, Dept. of Computer Science
Distribution: usa
Date: 27 Jul 92 16:54:18 GMT

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.  

I must say I tried WIN3.1 yesterday on my system, with ATI vantage, and it
really is fast! why is os2  so slow (in comparision)?

BTW, its a good idea to unfregment the OS2 partition (by booting dos).
Pctools compress version 6.0 works, at least if you dont re-order directories
(I didnt try it, I worry about it touching the ext.attr. bits)
This does speed OS2 up (if you have FAT. if you have HPFS, good luck.
it might be more freg. resistent, but it cant prevent it...) seems like
the OS2SYS.INI file gets fregmented, and really slow things down. I had
e.g. the 'OS2 system' folder take 8 seconds to open, compared to 2 when
it was 'new'. Software that degrade with use, ha? :-)

>>      OS/2 will be on my system again someday; most likely as soon as 32 bit
>>                 Mike Crandall          

Well I keep OS/2. I can't imagine going back to DOS... or use Win3.1. I
tried to compile in the background while I played Solitate in Windows. th
compilation stopped as soon as I switched from it. When I returned it
sometimes continued, sometimes got stack. I can't imagine anyone using 
Win3.1 except for windows programs, one at a time....

But you are RIGHT. OS2 is full of bugs/problems. How can IBM say
quality success? this term amazes me.

>	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

I B M ! ! ! A R E  Y O U  L I S T E N ING ?!? ?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?

Os2 is FULL of bugs/problems, and you had 4 months to fix them. I have
yet to see a single fix for common WPS problems (e.g bad redraws, icon
crazt, setup forgoten, cant shutdown).
Same for most DOS problems (crashes, can't close, slowed scrolling, etc).

GET ON WITH THE FIXES!! before u give us Win3.1 we dont really need,
fix the god damn bugs! Otherwise OS2 is doomed to fail, and I would
hate to install NT on top of it and learn yet another OS details.
[assuming of course NT would be better. I know I know... I can always hope!]

I B M ! ! ! In four months you had to fix OS2, all you fixed are small
install problems and some misc. stuff. the XCOPY bug the 1st poster
described is a shame. If I was in the OS/2 team, I would be hate to admit
we have such a bug in such a simple basic command and we dont bother
to fix it. What is going on?!

Anything 'stronger' I can post to get a reply from some IBM'er? I know
you guys read the net?! I can describe 30 bugs in OS2 myself, without
even trying to do QA... But I dont have the time to report all of these.
I mean, one ro two bugs I do report, but 30?! In april, when I first
saw the problems, we were talking 'June CSD'. July is almost over... no
fixes in sight...


 Michael Golan
 mg@princeton.edu