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Article #2154Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96)
From: MMI...
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 00:00
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 1995 00:00
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In article <3sm3sp$i...@wonderland.apana.org.au>, ad...@wonderland.apana.org.au (Adam Watkin) wrote: >Anonymous (ste...@msn.com) wrote: >: In article <vis_cah-3105...@xdial1-slip1.shsu.edu>, vis...@shsu.edu (Allan Hall) says: >: > >: >In article <D9FBK...@freenet.niagara.com>, bwh...@freenet.niagara.com >: >(Brett Whitty) wrote: >: > Then why would Descent lock up at the exit to the first level, and why >: >did Comanche refuse to run at all? Never had those problems under PCDOS >: >7... > Without meaning to sound insulting you must have your system set >up incorrectly because on every machine I have seen with Win95, Descent >runs _faster_ whether in dos mode or in a dos prompt, it's slow if in a >window but that is to be expected. At any rate quicker than under DOS 6 >and never once has it crashed. > >Adam. Descent runs great on my copy of Win95 beta; faster than it did under OS/2 Warp.... but that's not to say one OS is better than another (I don't care what OS you use). Just adding my 2 cents worth that I've had no problems with Descent under Win95, DOS 6.2 and Warp (just slower under Warp).
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From: MMI...@IBM.NET Subject: Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96) Date: 1995/06/27 Message-ID: <1995Jun27.141946.23173@es.dupont.com> X-Deja-AN: 105124481 sender: ne...@es.dupont.com (USENET News System) references: <3q8ngd$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> <3sm3sp$i64@wonderland.apana.org.au> organization: Private 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