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

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From: ad... Adam Watkin
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 00:00
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Anonymous (ste...@msn.com) wrote:
: In article <vis_cah-3105...@xdial1-slip1.shsu.edu>, vis...@shsu.edu (Allan Hall) says:
: >
: >In article <D9FBK...@freenet.niagara.com>, bwh...@freenet.niagara.com
: >(Brett Whitty) wrote:
: >> Geez, you're smoking the good crack.  OF COURSE YOU CAN RUN ANY DOS GAME, 
: >> BECAUSE YOU'RE RUNNING DOS.  Why not just save yourself the hundred bucks 
: >> and stay as far away from Warp as possible.  Win 95 does claim to have a
: >
: >   Because my "cracking smoking" friend, As you will notice i said "when
: >you need the multitasking and crash protection os OS/2". That is why...
: > 
: >> boot manager, but I'll be damned if I can find it.  HOWEVER, when you say 
: >> that win 95's reboot to DOS mode is nowhere near as compatible as real 
: >> DOS, IT IS DOS.  When you reboot to DOS with Win 95, your PC only touches
: >
: >   Then why would Descent lock up at the exit to the first level, and why
: >did Comanche refuse to run at all? Never had those problems under PCDOS
: >7...
	Without meaning to sound insulting you must have your system set 
up incorrectly because on every machine I have seen with Win95, Descent 
runs _faster_ whether in dos mode or in a dos prompt, it's slow if in a 
window but that is to be expected. At any rate quicker than under DOS 6 
and never once has it crashed.

Adam.
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From: ad...@wonderland.apana.org.au (Adam Watkin)
Subject: Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96)
Date: 1995/06/26
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