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Article #2153Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96)
From: ad... Adam Watkin
Date: Mon, 26 Jun 1995 00:00
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 Message-ID: <3sm3sp$i64@wonderland.apana.org.au> X-Deja-AN: 105124427 references: <3q8ngd$rej@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <3qcl9u$7k6@newsy.ifm.liu.se> <801825624snz@cbsltd.demon.co.uk> <Pine.A32.3.91.950530041328.50503C-100000@ <vis_cah-3105950721560001@xdial1-slip1.shsu.edu> <3sdhju$p9@its.hooked.net> followup-to: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.f organization: dnalrednoWonderland newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.f MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit