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Re: Windows 95 & OS/2 - Games

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From: mil... Anthony J. Mills
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>
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