Re: Windows 95 is like a box of chocolates.....never know what kind of crash i'll get!

Article View: alt.games.warcraft

Article #352416

Back to alt.games.warcraft Previous Next

#352416

From: her... Michael Hermann
Date: Tue, 05 Dec 1995 00:00

25 lines
2048 bytes

In article <4a1e7t$f...@agate.berkeley.edu>, thw...@uclink2.berkeley.edu (Tony Ching-Kong Hwang) writes:
|> 
|> BTW, can you run all windows 95 games and DOS games under NT? If you can, 
|> then I'll upgrade tomorrow! If not, then... I'm going to be FORCED to 
|> stay with windows 95... Sucks, mainly for the slow network... and 
|> HORRIBLE 16-bit FAT.... also... crashes... for the strangest reasons... 
|> hmm... how compatible is windows NT? What version is it on right now? 
|> Anyways, windows 95's long file name sucks... When I copy a file onto a 
|> floppy, windows 3.11 users get disk errors reading it... oh, well. I'll 
|> just wait till windows 95 integrates with windows NT, then it'll be the 
|> greatest OS around!

WinG is available for NT AFAIK, but the new DirectX APIs aren't and
will most likely not be in the near future (after all they run
contrary to NTs design by accessing the HW directly and turning off multi-
tasking). 
OTOH you would lose support for most DOS games...

As for waiting for the unified version, that is now further away than ever,
instead of merging the codebase in 1997 as said before, MS now says 1999.

I agree that Win95 sucks, and if I had to use a WinOS, it would be NT.
Fortunatley I don't have to use any WinOSes.

 -Mike

Technical Details

Message-ID: <4a1hur$rhn@news.rz.uni-passau.de>

Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail

References: <4a1e7t$fmh@agate.berkeley.edu>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

From: her...@sidonius.uni-passau.de (Michael Hermann)
Subject: Re: Windows 95 is like a box of chocolates.....never know what kind of crash i'll get!
Date: 1995/12/05
Message-ID: <4a1hur$rhn@news.rz.uni-passau.de>
X-Deja-AN: 120923528
distribution: world
sender: hermann@sidonius (Michael Hermann)
references: <4a1e7t$fmh@agate.berkeley.edu>
organization: University of Passau, Germany
newsgroups: comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips,junk,alt.games.warcraft,alt.games.doom,alt.games.descent,alt.binaries.descent,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup,comp.sys.intel,comp
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Reply to Parent Message