Re: TP 701 Upgrade by PEP

[John Kim <kim@mak.com>]

On Fri, 31 Oct 1997, David Howery wrote:
> At 08:00 AM 10/31/97 -0800, laniear@ibm.net wrote:
> >Well, if you wanted to test OS/2 I have a hard drive with a fully
> funnctioning OS/2 system 
> >on it which runs everyday, except for those occassions when I run windows
> '95.  It also has 
> >a large DB2 database (one table has 997,000 rows).  I'm not that far from
> USC and all that 
> >would have to happen is take out your hard drive in put in mine.  If you
>
> Please consider this offer.  As an OS/2 user I am very interested in the
> performance of this upgrade under OS/2.  As I offered earlier, I would be
> happy to send you a copy of Clear & Simple's Performance Plus v.4 benchmarks.

I have to agree.  I've noticed that Win95 (normal and OSR2) 
takes a very noticeable performance hit every time there's a
disk access (and I have a SCSI hard drive and CDROM).  Usually
I never notice disk accesses under OS/2 or Linux.  So the
performance gains under OS/2 or Linux may be significantly
different from Win95 since they're more independent of the hard
drive.

The same goes for Win95 and networking - one network connection
hangs and it locks everything else out.  You're left twiddling
your thumbs waiting for it to timeout.

I'll stop now before this starts to become Windows-bashing...
--
John H. Kim
kim@mak.com