#DUAL HD BOOT
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Robb,
Yes, 2.1 still offers the option of file system. From your perspective
it also seems to have undergone improvements in the areas of telecommuncations
and networking, but I don't know much about what that means for you, since I
never knew much about networking to begin with! As for the telecomm aspects,
the main things appear to be better support for com ports and com chips.
The article I read about NT didn't indicate the distribution media, but
given the size it would be hard to imagine that CD ROM wouldn't be the choice.
For those who go that route we're talking now about the added cost of the CD
ROM drive, perhaps a SCSI card. Maybe NT is an abbreviation for Not for The
masses!
Yes, we are now fairly off the mark of this thread!!!! And I guess I
was a little off the mark on what I remebered MVS machines used in RAM space.
Gee, do you suppose those MVS apps are even more bloated than the Windows apps?
I don't remember any stats on memory requirements for any of the mainframe
software I used to use before there were PCs.
Steven,
Well, it's good to hear I won't be forced into HPFS. Of course support for
all the dos and all the windows stuff is probably the main reason OS/2 is
so huge! I'm really trying to avoid the paperwork to get an upgrade to 2.1
but, I'm just going to have to do it.
Not for The masses, a little more true for NT than OS/2 (not much).
Even though we're off the thread, really, I still am interested in getting
a HiDensity Floppy for mi-Amiga.
If I remember right, you said it was a few years since you've worked with
MVS. Alot has changed. If it was 10(ish?) years ago, there was a 16m
limit. That's when 64k in a micro would do(?). But, that has changed. And
yes, it is kind of a fat bloated kludge, in a lot of ways. I bet there's
simply ancient code that is still running in it. But, it does get one hell
of a lot of work through it, fast! We're talking on the order of people at
30,000+ terminals using it and 10-100 batch jobs and gigabytes of page
dasd (swap files) and more and we don't have a really big system. Our
corporate counterparts in Concord and San Francisco, now they have some
BIG machines! Oh, I checked on the 'actual' size of the memory on our
machines. They each have 768 meg. The one machine had 72 mips, before the
6th CPU was added. If you've coded assemlber on both 370 and 68000 or
other mainframes/micros both, you'll know why I say the mips don't
compare.
Robb,
You have lots of power at your fingertips. Yes, it's probably been
about 10 years since I bought my first Osborne PC. I haven't used a mainframe
since then!! I swear I couldn't log onto one if my life depended on it.
I do believe that some mail order houses have the internal HD floppies
for the 3000s, but I haven't seen an external drive available other than the
AED drive.
Steven,
NT = Not on Time 😉
Malcolm