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Re: OS/2 Warp Compression
- To: tp750@CS.UTK.EDU
- Subject: Re: OS/2 Warp Compression
- From: ychou (Sean Chou)
- Date: Tue, 13 Dec 1994 18:51:46 -0600
>1. What a space hog! Even dumping the majority of the free works stuff,
>AND limiting the swapfile size, this this is a pig. I also dislike how
>long it takes to boot up, I could do dos and windows in half the time!
Won't you be surprised when you see that Windows95 comes on 20
some disks? ;) I think this point is pretty much beating a dead
horse. DOS/Win may boot up twice as fast, but you'll spend twice
as often (at least) booting it up.
>2. I bought the Lotus Smartsuite for OS/2 (At $120, what a deal!) and I
>hope to heck they improve it in the future....Amipro and 123 ae GIANT
>leaps backward from Word for Windows 6.0 and Excel for win 5.0 in terms
>of features and ease of use. I am waiting for some enhancements, hint hint!
Agree wholeheartedly! It's said that Lotus is waiting for their
next release to catch up the OS/2 and Win versions -- of course,
that'll be when Win95 ships...
>I didn't realize OS/2 would be wanting a 20meg swap file, and would take
>over 30 megs if given its way. Needless to say, I am still only
There's something wrong here. It shouldn't take that much with
20mb RAM. When I ran on 12mb RAM, I alloted it an initial 10mb
swap and it hardly ever went over.
>Someone posted a Stacker-like program for OS/2 which took advantage of
>32bit performance....I looked and wound up installing Zipstream, which
I do believe it was ZipStream.
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Sean Chou / schou@uiuc.edu / CompuServe 73672,2111