19 Apr
2002
19 Apr
'02
7:37 a.m.
In a message dated 4/19/2002 10:48:08 AM Central Daylight Time,
bpope(a)wordstock.com writes:
And thusly Doc spake:
That was a big bragging point for us OS/2 users.
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, John Allain wrote:
It's a Windows things... For some reason they just can't multitask
properly while doing a floppy disk format. Maybe they are still using DOS
type format routines.
With OS/2, you can also do a full format of a floppy and do anything else
with
no slowdown.
I encoded some family geneology into set of frame
HTML
pages once. It turned out to be something line 600 small html
files, 300 KBytes or so. When I went to put it on a floppy, it
took over 30 Minutes to write!
OK. This is completely off topic, but it has bugged me for years.
You guys are more likely to know, and care, than any other forum I hang
in. I use a Linux PC as my daily workstation, file server, DNS, MOP
server, etc. Given hardware limitations, it's stable enough.
I can start a lowlevel format on a floppy, go and surf the net, read
my email, compile software, or play a game while (45-75 secs) that
happens.
Do that in Win<anyversion> on the same hardware, and I might as well
go make coffee. Same comparison applies to printing large documents.
WHAT is M$ doing that operating a floppy disk drive takes ALL of a
1.4GHz CPU and 512M of memory? I wanna know!
19 Apr
19 Apr
8:35 a.m.
And thusly SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com spake:
When OS/2 (V3?) came out, a friend and I demoed it at a user group meeting.
We put it beside whatever was the latest from M$. Of course OS/2 was *better*
at everything... <sigh>
That (formatting a floppy disk) was a big thing. The other big thing was
playing multiple DOS games in console windows with almost *no* slowdown.
Cheers,
Bryan
It's a Windows things... For some reason they just can't multitask
properly while doing a floppy disk format. Maybe they are still using DOS
type format routines.
With OS/2, you can also do a full format of a floppy and do anything else
with
no slowdown.
That was a big bragging point for us OS/2 users.
9:03 a.m.
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002, Bryan Pope wrote:
When OS/2 (V3?) came out, a friend and I demoed it at a user group meeting.
We put it beside whatever was the latest from M$. Of course OS/2 was *better*
at everything... <sigh>
That (formatting a floppy disk) was a big thing. The other big thing was
playing multiple DOS games in console windows with almost *no* slowdown.
I used OS/2 in my main desktop machine right from version 1.3. I remember
when Warp came out. It was so cool to be able to play a game while using
Prodigy on my Hayes Smartmodem 2400 at the same time.
Peace... Sridhar
It's a Windows things... For some reason they
just can't multitask
properly while doing a floppy disk format. Maybe they are still using DOS
type format routines.
With OS/2, you can also do a full format of a floppy and do anything else
with
no slowdown.
That was a big bragging point for us OS/2 users.
10:31 a.m.
I used OS/2 in my main desktop machine right from
version 1.3. I remember
when Warp came out. It was so cool to be able to play a game while using
Prodigy on my Hayes Smartmodem 2400 at the same time.
Peace... Sridhar
I see I wasn't the only one doing that :^) I also liked being able to cut
from one window and paste into the Prodigy window!
That made posting the
Linux BBS list, which I maintained at the time, to Prodigy
possible. It
wasn't easy, or fun, but it was possible :^)
Zane
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