Re: XY and on-line sessions

[Harmon F Seaver hseaver@xxxxxxxx]

>** Reply to note from "Alarik W. Skarstrom"  03/21/96
>12:59am -0500

 Robert has some good stuff here, but one comment:

>have an OS pre-installed. You're going to need gobs of memory, and it
>costs money, you have to accept that; don't even think about it until you
>get the bucks together. You don't want 8Meg; you want 16, or preferably
>32Meg. If you're going to assemble a system -- deluxe or budget -- you

  This I have to disagree with -- sure, 16meg is great (and 32 is probably
even better, I don't know), but I was very, very happy running OS/2 on
8megs. it runs faster on 16, but so what? Both Linux and OS/2 do very well
on 8 megs, and they both will run and be quite useful on 4 megs. Speed --
essentially, for XY users, just the speed of switching windows since XY goes
about as fast as it can either way -- is just that sort of hot-rodder
mindset that we all get into. I'm running a 5x86-100 which I overclock to
120 just for the heck of doing it. Does it make me more productive -- not
much, if any -- but I'm almost compulsed to do it. If I had the spare change
for another 16meg I'd do it, probably. Just to see how much faster it would
go, most of which I can only tell with a performance monitor anyway at this
point. Actually I had the cash for the memory but fell into a chance to buy
a whole print shop sitting in a guy's garage (5 older offset presses,
pre-press, folder, collator, and a small letterpress) -- more toys.
 But anyway, I'd rather have a 386sx-16 with 8meg running Warp or Linux
than a 486 w/16meg running windoz -- a lot also depends upon optimizing the
setup for yours system also, and you have that customizability in OS/2 to do
that that you don't have in lesser systems.

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