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

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From: MMI...
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
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