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Re: Windows 95 /NT MicroCenters dropped the ball

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From: jmarc... JMarc39157
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 1995 00:00
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>Well, that serves to show that you probably have  not used OS/2 in
>less than 16 Mbytes. I am running a 386/33Mhz and 8 MBytes of RAM
>and the response is good. Of course when I try to run AMIPRO it will
>swap like hell but even with the networking on, it works very good.

>OS/2 runs well in 8 Mbytes, what about NT ?

I used to use OS/2 on a 486/25 with 8MB of RAM.  And, it was FINE for 
running it without any other programs also being run.  But, like you said,
when you load up AMIPRO, or any other necessary task for most people,
it swaps like hell.  How can you consider an OS good if it has to swap 
to disk so much for a word processor?  It truly needs 16MB of RAM to
be reliably usable for the average person and more for a business user.
NT will also run in 8MB of RAM just like OS/2 although it will swap a lot
more.  I also think that the bare minimum for NT is 16MB.

John
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