[48] in OS/2_Discussion
First impressions of OS/2....
tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Jul 22 13:59:06 1992
Well, I spent yesterday night trying to install OS/2.... (yes, I
actually paid the $49 dollars for the "upgrade") To be fair the
released version is much better than the beta versions which I've tried.
However, the Workplace Shell is still *way* *too* *slow* --- and this is
on my 40 MHz 386 with 16 megs of memory. What seems to be killing it is
that it needs to do a lot of disk access anytime you try to do anything.
Perhaps there is some way to improve the cacheing parameters to improve
things. I would have expected IBM to pick better defaults, though.
Also, sometime after I loaded my old files back to the partition and ran
the "Migrate Applications" tool, the program "/OS2/MORE.COM" started
giving me the error message "Bad version of DOS". I was really careful
not to smash any of the OS/2 files (including CONFIG.SYS and
AUTOEXEC.BAT) when I restored my files, so I'm pretty sure that it was
the fault of the "Migrate Applications" tool. Then, when I tried doing
a "Selective Install" to reinstall the WINOS/2 and DOS files, in an
attempt to get the "more" command working again, OS/2 smashed itself the
next time it tried to reboot, and it looks like I'm going to have to
reinstall OS/2 from scratch.
I should note that in the past 9 months that I've been using Windows, I
haven't had it crash on me once. Given the fact that WPS is a dog, and
my initial problems with "more" and OS/2 crashing, I'm not terribly
impressed.... Nevertheless, I will give it another try, since I
destroyed my DOS/Windows partition to make room for OS/2, and it would
be pain to get the DOS/Windows partition set up again.
Barry, I'd be happy to try the SLIP in IBM's TCP/IP package --- once/if
I get my base OS/2 installation stable.
