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Re: Win95 and games: good news...

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From: cawo...
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 00:00
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In <3n3j7a$12...@bubba.ucc.okstate.edu>, ro...@wentz1.reslife.okstate.edu (root) writes:
>In article <3n1n10$i...@cmcl2.NYU.EDU>, jmw...@is2.nyu.edu says...
>
>>Talk about wasting bandwidth... did you have some new information you would
>>like to impart with that message?  For instance, what is the real story 
>regarding
>
>Hahhaha, I can sniff a OS/2 zealot from a mile away.  Yup, you can run 
>separate DOS sessions with specified or automatically allocated EMS, XMS, or 
>DPMI memory, different environment size, configurable conventional memory 
>amount, separate autoexec.bat and config.sys for each dos app.
>
>Good thing is, you can leave everything on auto and you don't have to screw 
>around with a zillion ambiguous dos session settings like warped.
>
>There is an idiot proof dialogue to set up support for: mouse, disk cache,
  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I guess this must mean that only idiots will use Win95?  

The only thing that Win95 will apparently have going for it is it supposed game support.

Since it won't be able to run several  Multi-threaded apps simultaneously, which is a big bumble on Lord Bill's part to say the least.  and as to future promised(etc. etc.) applications,  consider this.  NT has been out for HOW LONG and MSFT doesn't have have multi-threaded APPS for it, even NOW.  And NT is the "flagship" robust OS from MSFT.

  
>doskey, expanded memory manager, and direct disk access for each dos session. 
> Just click on the choices.  For any other devices, it's simple to add the 
>lines into your custom config.
>
>It's really cool to be able to run DOS games in a window and stuff, although 
>I prefer to switch to full-screen with a quick alt-enter.  The really cool 
>stuff, though, is gonna be the crop of new games optimized for Win95 using 
>the WING libraries.  I really couldn't live without the backward 
>compatibility offered by Win95 for both Windows apps and dos apps (read: 
					^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>games ;) and I'd guess that most gamers would feel the same way.
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

So it looks like people that want to play will use Win95 and those that want to work will use WARP.  And since Win95 will be MSFT keyboard enabled you'll be able to press the GPF key to increase your GPF's without the hassles of actually running a program.  How convenient.<G>.


Chris

Warping... NOT Waiting...

or should that be

Working... NOT Playing...
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From: cawo...@roentgen.bcc.louisville.edu
Subject: Re: Win95 and games: good news...
Date: 1995/04/19
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