Re: Windows 95 & OS/2

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From: ter... Terje A. Bergesen
Date: Thu, 03 Aug 1995 00:00

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In article <3vcd03$i...@news.acns.nwu.edu>,
sger...@merle.acns.nwu.edu (Steven Gershenfeld) wrote:

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> To quote from Introducing Microsoft Windows 95 (Microsoft Press):
> 
> "This process [SAM] is like exiting W3.1 and then running the specified
> ms-dos based application under ms-dos."  Page 97.
> 
> The only benefit SAM has for DOS games is that it is "automated" versus
> a dual-boot OS/2 or boot manager OS/2.

I think actually that MS is lying here. I have a game called
KA 50 Hokum. Last time I tried it, it worked perfectly when
playing from DOS 6, DOS 7 (boot Win95 without loading the GUI),
but it did not run in SAM. So, SAM and DOS 7 straight CAN'T
be the same thing.

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From: ter...@vestnett.no (Terje A. Bergesen)
Subject: Re: Windows 95 & OS/2
Date: 1995/08/03
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