Re: Win95 and games: good news...

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From: law3... NICHOLAS PHILIP LAZARUS
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 00:00

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Baphometae Organus (jjf...@hamp.hampshire.edu) wrote:
: . Specially where backk-ward compatibility is concerned. I always 
: : hate arguing with Os/2 users because they are so biased, it just seems 
: : pointless to argue with them.

: : I will happily flying in windows 95 while those other losers are 
: : sloughing in their so called os/2
: :  systems.

: I have heard that Windows 95 is not backward compatible with w3.1 
: programs.  Is this true?  Or is this a scaly lie from the warp types?  I 
: would hate to lose the use of some of my great old windows games...

Windows 95 is fully backward compatibile with win 3.1 programs. It does 
this by retaining some of the 16-bit code.

Speed wise so far from what I see it's 16-bit applications are quite fast.

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From: law3...@leonis.nus.sg (NICHOLAS PHILIP LAZARUS)
Subject: Re: Win95 and games: good news...
Date: 1995/04/19
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