From: jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999)
Subject: Re: Oh my God! Help my friend not buy an IBM!
Organization: NCR (Torrey Pines Development Center)
Disclaimer: This posting does not necessarily reflect the opinions of NCR.
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 92 21:33:08 GMT

Quoth 925wardell@gw.wmich.edu:

]> In article <1992Nov18.214730.12952@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com>, jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999) writes:
]> > Quoth linville@garfield.catt.ncsu.edu (John W. Linville):
]> > ]> In article <1992Nov12.231010.5276@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com> jgrimm@TorreyPinesCA.ncr.com (Jeffrey Grimmett 9999) writes:
]> > 
]> > ]> Your quibbling over a few megabytes of HD space is invalid.  At least, on a
]> > ]> PC, HD space is cheap.  At less than $2/meg, get all you can.  Then you won't
]> > ]> give yourself an ulcer worrying about how much space your OS is using.
]> > 
]> > That's a sorry excuse.  It's that way of thinking that got us gas lines in the
]> > 70's.  In this case I'll quibble all I want to -- MY operating system will fit
]> > in less than 2 megs, while OS/2 reqires around 10x that to be effective.
]> > 
]> > ]> John W. Linville

]> 	If you don't want OS/2 to use 30 megs of disk space, then just
]> don't add teh Windows 3.x support, DOS support, and the pitiful little
]> apps that come with it.  OS/2 can take up as little as 3 megs of
]> disk space if you want.  But if you want the graphica user enviornment
]> then you have to add a few megs.  Add the applets that come with it
]> then you add more, etc.  A complete OS/2 installation minus all DOS
]> support and Windows support but with the wrok place shell, and such
]> takes 12 megs of disk space total.

Damn, you're making my case for me!  In case 1, if I were to strip ADos down
to a non-gui environment, I suspect that my data would be in the low 400K
if not less.  I could have the full GUI up and running on one 880K disk.
And it looks like my estimates of @20 megs for a full OS/2 system was
a bit generous... if it takes 12 M to get it up with no DOS or Winders
support, I can imagine the overhead of adding them!  Not 8 megs or less,
I suppose.  30 meg?  Yow.

]> 	Similarly, if Amigados was expected to Run MS-Windows and MS-Dos
]> you too would have to add the over 18 megabytes of garbabge to your hard
]> drive.

Don't be so sure of that... while I have not given it the Hell Test, I
hear that Cross-PC is very good ad running DOS applications, and I suspect
it comes in at less then a meg WITH all drivers.  That leaves 17 megs to
play with for Winders support and I have a feeling it wouldn't all be
required.

One reason for me saying this is that for some reason Amiga code seems
to be more compact than equivelent Intel-compatable software.  It's some
thing that is probably purely objective on my part, but certain things
like comparisons of equivelent programs has led me to this conclusion.


]> 
]> 							-Brad
]> 
]> 
]> 
]> 


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