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Article #1464Re: Windows 95 & OS/2
From: morp...
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 00:00
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 1995 00:00
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In <9509120104591.T...@delphi.com>, tms...@delphi.com (HP Lovecraft) writes:
>more game developers are working on 95 stuff, so that's where it's going.
>NT is nice, I love it, but let's face it: it's too incompatible with lots of
>3.1 software to be worthwhile for many users. Linux doesn't have enough
However Win95 is dead before it was launched.
>As far as 95 multitasking - there is one way to prove it - I can format a
>diskette at the same time I copy a 9 meg file from HD to HD.
I've been able to do one better. Format a floppy and do a 14.4k transfer
with no loss of speed.... since 2.0. That was 4 years ago.
>does however, multitask it's 32 bit apps, and since many are coming out,
>most people won't notice this quirk.
This part I love. 32bit apps are coming out and people are saying, "What,
we're going to upgrade?" The exact same thing they said 4 years ago with
OS/2. One big case of I told you so. The damnest part is they'll do it for
Microsoft just because it is Microsoft.
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