Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Nov 1998 08:43:38 +0100 (CET) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [Off Topic] Memory Requirements |
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On Fri, 20 Nov 1998 jens@pinguin.conetix.de wrote:
> So the cycle was this: Get OS/2, install, see it crawling because 4M > isn't enough, start ranting, delete it, get Win95, see it crawling, > upgrade your machine because you suddenly don't seem to have a > choice any more, So: > > OS/2 is dog-slow -> OS/2 sucks > Win95 crawls -> your hardware needs to be upgraded
I seem to have been quite happy running OS/2 2.11 on a 486/40 with 4 MB of ram and 250MB of disk space... Borrowing an extra megabyte solved many of the performance problems, however :)
But then I switched to Linux (Slackware 2.x?) and never went back again...
Those were the days. I just wish we had swap cache and streaming swap back then :)
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