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

Article View: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action

Article #2367

Back to comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action Previous Next

#2367

From: ter... Terje A. Bergesen
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 00:00

29 lines
1899 bytes

In article <3ur5qs$f8_...@line04.socketis.net>,
jco...@socketis.net (Jody Cooper) wrote:
> In article <DC3Fq...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>,
>    rjva...@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Rob Vanden Heuvel) wrote:
> 
> >Yet Microsoft has achieved compatibility which, by all reports on this 
> >newsgroup at least, are no better than OS/2s.  Now seeing that OS/2 is
> >a fully 32-bit OS, please explain to me again why it was so necessary for
> >Win95 to use so much 16-bit code?  Hmmm?
> 
> Two words:  Backwards Compatibility.

But it seems like Win95 is not that much more compatible than OS/2.
Several of my games will not run unless I run it in SAM - which is
ALMOST like booting back to DOS, and one or two of the will not
run unless I really boot back to DOS. This is about the same as I get
with OS/2. The apps that work under Win95 seemed to work under
OS/2. The apps that needed SAM or booting into DOS I ran under by
double booting to DOS.

Now, I don't run Win95 anymore. The only MS OS I have on my
computer is WinNT 3.51. Compared to Windows 95 this is FAAAR
better. Why anyone with 16M or more RAM would ever run Win95
is beyond me. Why people with large HD's would even dream of
running Win95 is beyond me. Why waste all the HD space?

_______________________________________________________________________
Terje Bergesen - Bergesen Data

Technical Details

Message-ID: <a3O5mqrPwN23078yn@vestnett.no>

Path: mbox-mo1.pugleaf.net!unknown!not-for-mail

References: <3q8ngd$rej@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <3t1tmv$a1i@moe.cc.emory.edu>

Show Full Headers

Complete Article Headers

From: ter...@vestnett.no (Terje A. Bergesen)
Subject: Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96)
Date: 1995/07/25
Message-ID: <a3O5mqrPwN23078yn@vestnett.no>
X-Deja-AN: 107023948
distribution: world
references: <3q8ngd$rej@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <3t1tmv$a1i@moe.cc.emory.edu>
organization: Bergesen Data
newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy
originator: ter...@troll.vestnett.no
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Reply to Parent Message