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Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96)

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From: vend... andrew gaul
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 1995 00:00
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Alexander O. Norris (a...@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: Hey crack smoking friend, yeah, you in the giant BLUE overalls with
: OS/2 painted all over your face:

And are you the little snotty kid sitting in a sandbox with a Windows 95 
tattoo on your arm?  :)

: get a recent copy of the Win95 beta, ok?  OS/2 SUCKS!  plain and simple.

hmm...  that's funny 9 out of 10 techs I know (me included) use OS/2.  
Those who don't use Linux.

: how well does OS/2 handle multimdeia huh?

great!  Considering the fact that I have run CD Player and two video 
files at the sime time (486DX2/66)

: how about sound cards, joysticks, etc?

OS/2 supports all major sound boards.  what did you expect?

: What, you didn't mention the LONG, TEDIOUS, configuration info you need 
: to setup for every DOS program you run?

none.  OS/2 runs 95% of all applications out of box.  if you want to 
improve the speed of a particular app, fiddle with the configuration.  
That simple.  Much like tweaking the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files.

: Too bad, Win95 does it AUTOMATICALLY. 

And OS/2 doesn't?  Gee, what's that little Migrate Applications icon 
sitting in my System Setup folder.  Let's go click on it...  Migrate DOS, 
Windows and OS/2 programs?  Sure.  What?  You found Doom, Civilization, 
and Word 6.0?  That's nice...

: What can run DOS programs better than DOS 7.0 (win95)????

are you saying that Windows 95 is running under DOS?  That's not good.  
'Coz Windows is supposed to be 32-bit and now it can't do that under DOS, 
right?  oh, wait, they re-wrote DOS to be 32-bit?  well, then it isn't 
DOS anymore is it?

: 'Nuff said

Yes, you cetainly have said enough.  Sorry I had to rip you up like that, 
but somebody's got to tell you.  To all you Windows 95 advocates: this is 
almost a carbon copy of the post i will be writing to you if you start 
lieing again...  <g>

Vendetta
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From: vend...@netcom.com (andrew gaul)
Subject: Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96)
Date: 1995/06/25
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