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> That _must_ be why OS/2 is so popular?  Thats why games like Doom
> work so well on OS/2 and not Win95? :) (Unless you wait a year and a
> half for IBM to port it). 

You have to keep in mind that there was only one person working on the
port, and really, it isn't IBM's responsibility anyway.  DOOM *DID*
run under OS/2, but Id changed it and now it doesn't.  Starting with
version 1.2, Doom requires direct access to the hardware (ie sound
card), which means that it won't run under OS/2 or WinNT.  I might
add, that it is a good thing not to let programs access the hardware,
that is why OS/2 and NT isn't affected by viruses and helps out its
crash protection quite a bit.  Id made the change, and for no apparant
reason.  What I find interesting is that Id went out of their way for
a Linux port of Doom, and turned around and screwed the OS/2 market.
My solution, make another DOS setting, something like "Allow direct
access to sound card".  Which should always be off, unless you run
Doom.  Kind of crazy to make a change for just one program, though.

> I think OS/2 is great.  Without OS/2, Microsoft wouldn't have a
> "goal".  MS knows that if they don't do a better job than OS/2, they're in
> trouble.  I have experience with OS/2 and Win95, and Win95 has
> already made Warp look like Mach.

>From what I have seen, at least on the technical end, Win95 is nothing
new.  It isn't better than OS/2.  Still have a 64K heap space, 640K
conventional memory barrier (come on, is it that hard to implement a
flat memory module?), FAT filesystem, etc.  Win95 is DOS and Windows
revamped, with a pretty, easy to use, interface.  For most users, it
is great, but for people who need more, it doesn't cut it.  I for one,
run more than 10 things at a time quite often, and Win95's limit to 8
programs (that damn 64K heap) get's on my nerves.  Also, I can't have
any of them crash, and after one week of the Win95 beta, I will stick
with OS/2 or WinNT.  Both offer what I need and both are FAR superior
to Win95.
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