ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) (12/12/90)
On page 39, the December issue of Personal Workstation apparently
benchmarks the IO performance of the RS/6000 using OS/2!!
Knowing OS/2 is safely dead and buried where all terrible OSes
belong, I was very amazed by this, until I discovered that the
same pictures also show numbers for the SLC and the SS1. So it
must be a screwup. Do you know where the O word fits into these
pictures?
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_______________________________________________________________________________hunter@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au (James Gardiner [hunter]) (12/15/90)
In <28775@usc> ajayshah@alhena.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes: >On page 39, the December issue of Personal Workstation apparently >benchmarks the IO performance of the RS/6000 using OS/2!! >Knowing OS/2 is safely dead and buried where all terrible OSes For a dead OS, here in Aust, I hear about many companies developing using it and only IT! OS/2 Is used by some Big companies around here so OS/2 will probably stay around in the shadows and one day emerge with something to offer. >belong, I was very amazed by this, until I discovered that the >same pictures also show numbers for the SLC and the SS1. So it >must be a screwup. Do you know where the O word fits into these >pictures? I did read that IBM where porting OS/2 to RISK based stations (as even a suped up 386 has trouble driving it. The overhead is just to much and makes it unusable) If you where IBM and had developed this OS, spending MILLIONS opon MILLIONS, would not you try anything to get it off the ground if it was failing on its PLANNED platform. OS/2 probably does run on 90% of risk stations. Hunter -- James Gardiner [Hunter]. System Admin, Public Access UNIX Melbourne, Australia PubNet: phoenix!hunter | (voice)+613-532-8030 (data)+613-523-9865&+613-532-8029 Internet: hunter@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au | PO BOX 54 Chadstone Centre UUCP:..!uunet!munnari!labtam!eyrie!phoenix!hunter | Melbourne Austalia 3148
davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr) (12/18/90)
In article <1990Dec15.010143.9614@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au> hunter@phoenix.pub.uu.oz.au (James Gardiner [hunter]) writes: | I did read that IBM where porting OS/2 to RISK based stations | (as even a suped up 386 has trouble driving it. Seems to run reasonably on a 16 MHz SX. The display system is slow, I'll grant you that. I haven't heard that IBM is porting it, I *did* hear from two sources that MicroSoft has it running on the Intel 860, but that they aren't sure what to do about marketing it, if anything. One source is questionable, one has been reliable in the past. | The overhead is just | to much and makes it unusable) Again, I don't see evidence that the overhead is that high. Higher than UNIX, yes. <20%, yes to that one, too. And when using lightweight processes it may well be lower overhead than a "stock" UNIX which must use full weight processes. Wasn't that supposed to be in V.4? | If you where IBM and had developed this | OS, spending MILLIONS opon MILLIONS, would not you try anything to | get it off the ground if it was failing on its PLANNED platform. | OS/2 probably does run on 90% of risk stations. I's like to see a source for that statement. I would have to see ports to SPARC, MIPS, and 88000 before I would believe anything close to 90%. I believe that OS/2 has some very nice ideas which should be incorporated into UNIX. I don't believe that OS/2 will ever be a widely popular multi-platform o/s, but I won't deny that if IBM and MicroSoft dedicated all their resources to it they could give away or sell at deep discount enough copies to make it widely used if not popular. -- bill davidsen (davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen) VMS is a text-only adventure game. If you win you can use unix.