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SubjectRe: [Off Topic] Memory Requirements
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 :)

Rik -- slowly getting used to dvorak kbd layout...
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