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Article #1797Re: Windows 95 & OS/2 - Games
From: mil... Anthony J. Mills
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 00:00
Date: Tue, 01 Aug 1995 00:00
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In article <3v5931$m...@news.rz.uni-passau.de> her...@uhura.uni-passau.de (Michael Hermann) writes:
:In article <3v48ih$b...@acmex.gatech.edu>, gt4...@prism.gatech.edu (Stephen Carter Morgan) writes:
:|>
:|> I fired up two simultanious sessions of Doom on the Windows 95 (June beta
:|> release) demo machine at Computer City (An Acer P-90 with 16MB) while also
:|> having the CD player and Control Panel open. I was able to switch between
:|> them nearly instantaneously by using Alt-Tab. They were even different
:|> episodes of Doom (one was Knee-Deep in the Dead, while the other was The
{snip}
:have you been watching the one Doom game you weren't playing at any given
:time ? From what I've read it basically stops unitl you 'use' it again, no
:decent multitasking.
:
:Basically you have two Doom games running, but only one at a given time so
:the speed should be comparable to only having one open
:
: -Mike
Is this a bench mark :) I fired up two dooms under XWindows on my linux
machine ( dx2-66 only 8meg ) maybe a little bit slower not really noticable
and while I played one the demo was running happy in the other. Will Win95
compare to this on a dx2-66 with 8meg?
Tony
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From: mil...@blackjack.dsto.gov.au (Anthony J. Mills) Subject: Re: Windows 95 & OS/2 - Games Date: 1995/08/01 Message-ID: <MILLSA.95Aug1120617@blackjack.dsto.gov.au> X-Deja-AN: 107418615 distribution: world references: <3t91i2$3gt@oslo-nntp.eunet.no> <3t99np$74c@onramp.arc.nasa.gov> organization: Aeronautical Research Laboratory, Melbourne, Australia. newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit