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On Fri, 31 Oct 1997 10:47:54 -0500 (EST), John Kim wrote: >On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, David Howery wrote: >> At 08:00 AM 10/31/97 -0800, laniear@ibm.net wrote: >> >Well, if you wanted to test OS/2 I have a hard drive with a fully >> funnctioning OS/2 system >> >on it which runs everyday, except for those occassions when I run windows >> '95. It also has >> >a large DB2 database (one table has 997,000 rows). I'm not that far from >> USC and all that >> >would have to happen is take out your hard drive in put in mine. If you >> >> Please consider this offer. As an OS/2 user I am very interested in the >> performance of this upgrade under OS/2. As I offered earlier, I would be >> happy to send you a copy of Clear & Simple's Performance Plus v.4 benchmarks. > >I have to agree. I've noticed that Win95 (normal and OSR2) >takes a very noticeable performance hit every time there's a >disk access (and I have a SCSI hard drive and CDROM). Usually >I never notice disk accesses under OS/2 or Linux. So the >performance gains under OS/2 or Linux may be significantly >different from Win95 since they're more independent of the hard >drive. > >The same goes for Win95 and networking - one network connection >hangs and it locks everything else out. You're left twiddling >your thumbs waiting for it to timeout. > >I'll stop now before this starts to become Windows-bashing... >-- >John H. Kim >kim@mak.com > > I think that if we can't have one upgrade, maybe 2 upgrades - someone who's willing to allow their 701 with OS/2 and/or Linux to be upgraded and see the difference. With OS/2, I can imagine there'd be a big difference, but with Linux, well, maybe you could log in faster as root. :-) Just 2 cents in the tray. Paul