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Re: Warp4 on a 701 (was: NT on 750)
On Thu, 07 Aug 1997 22:07:26 -0700, tdwis@ibm.net wrote:
>Chris Hanson wrote:
>
>> From: "Victor Kress" <kress@u.washington.edu>
>> Date: Thu, 07 Aug 97 10:07:25 +0500
>>
>> Now that Microsoft of Borg has assimilated Macintosh, I am
>> considering
>> accepting the invitable and migrating to NT from Warp 4.
>> (snipped...)
>>
>> I think you will find NT very sluggish on this machine. I tried NT 4
>> on my 755C with 36 MB of RAM and found it to be painful.
>
>If he was running Warp4 he must be accustomed to sluggishness. I
>installed it on one of the two hard drives for my 701 (DX4/75, 24mb) and
>find it to be very slow compared to Win95, which runs quite well on the
>other hard drive with the same machine.
>
>Though I like some things about Warp4, I'm baffled as to why there is no
>feature for file management, like File Manager/Explorer on the Windows
>system. This omission alone makes it almost too tedious to use. I assume
>there are OS/2 file manager programs one can buy. But given that it
>already comes with an array of Bonus Pack application, why would IBM
>leave out something so basic?
>
>
>
I never thought of it being a problem, even for myself. I always use the
command line, except for some things, I use ZTreeBold, which is the
OS/2 version of XTreeGold, which I'm sure many people have heard
of. If anyone wants this, I could send the shareware version also.
Paul
Regards,
Paul Khoury
pkhoury@earthlink.net