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I'm cross-posting this message into comp.os.os2.games, because OS/2 is 
beginning to get bad-mouthed in this thread (not by James, below, so 
don't berate him), and I thought it reasonable to try to achieve some 
balance here.

On Tue, 18 Apr 1995, James Lummel wrote:

> To handle the problem of DOS games with Windows '95, I have my regular
> multi-boot config.sys and a C:\WIN.BAT file that checks the configuration
> that was chosen at start-up.  If it's any configuration but the Windows
> one, to drops me to DOS (Yes, Win '95 runs on TOP of DOS - still!!).  I 

Perhaps you can answer a question for me.  As I understand it, the
settings you refer to in Win95 apply system-wide, is that the case?  To
me, that seems like an unacceptable limitation.  With OS/2, I can
tailor the settings for each program individually.  

Now, let's say that I want to run a DOS game that likes FILES=50.  In
OS/2, I simply change the game's settings to boost the files for that
session -- then, whenever I run the game, it uses FILES=50 and then drops
back to my system default (FILES=20) when I exit the game.  Why should I
penalize all my other tasks just for the sake of that one program by
increasing my system-wide FILES statement?  How does Win95 handle this
example?  From what I understand, it would require that I use FILES=50
system-wide or reboot into another configuration -- is that correct?  If
so, it doesn't seem like much of an improvement over what many people
currently do in DOS. 

JOHN

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