From: ins559n@aurora.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Bulhak) Subject: Re: Info World and MS-DOS 6 Date: Fri, 21 May 1993 02:20:26 GMT
jgearhar@tuba.calpoly.edu (Jesse Gearhart) writes:
>OS/2 flies on my 386/33 with 8megs of ram. No crashing, never had a
>problem with it's partition (I do have plenty of free space for a
>swapper.dat that's never gotten over 8megs (note: defaults at four
>anyway). A friend of mine tried Linux. Filled with bugs in the
>X/Windows portion. Dos emulation stank, and the programs he wanted to
>run didn't exist. He loved it because it was a UNIX on his PC, but he
>need real support. He went back to OS/2.
Firstly, Linux' DOS emulation is not yet complete. It is an alpha release; it
will work with some things (i.e., Turbo Pascal), but not with others (the
MS-DOS editor/QBasic). MS-Windows will (alas!) not run on Linux. As for
applications, there are plenty of non-commercial applications (GNU C++/EMACS
and xv are two that come to mind). Granted, there are no Lotus 1-2-3s or
WordPerfects at the moment, but there is a Xenix emulator under development
and that will run Xenix software as it runs on Xenix.
(And also, xtetris is more fun than Windows Solitaire and OS/2 Chess put
together; now when Microsoft produce Microsoft News.....)
>Selling Boot Manager might be a good idea,... But I STILL! recommend
>OS/2 itself!
OS/2 2.1 may be a good idea if it fixes the problems of 2.0 (i.e., lack of
drivers, crashing on some machines, high memory consumption, etc.) But still,
you won't get an optimising C/C++ compiler with it, whereas with Linux you
do.
>--
>Jesse Gearhart | OS/2 and Rush Limbaugh: Succeeding despite
>jgearhar@oboe.calpoly.edu | the media's best efforts.
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I love this. The good ol' Anti-OS/2 Conspiracy theory. I wonder how many
OS/2 afficionados are living in a siege mentality, visualising the
evil forces of Emperor BiLL massing around them from every direction.....
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