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Re: Win95 and games: good news...

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From: jk... joav kohn
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 1995 00:00
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In article <3nj6n6$l...@krypton.hpc.sdsmt.edu>
dmp...@silver.sdsmt.edu (Derik Pates) writes:

> Also, no one mentions Plug & Play. Gamers will 
> love this for not having to screw around with their new hardware on new 
> machines. And, even if you have an older system and/or older hardware, 
> Windows 95's Plug and Play will STILL help to make things easier for the 
> average user, with better detection and some diagnostics for address, 
> IRQ and DMA conflicts. This is better than what OS/2 Warp can muster. 
> I'll be getting my preview copy of Windows '95 very soon, and I'm sure 
> I'll never look at Warp after I start running Win '95.

IBM came out with plug and play about 8 years ago, and it was called
MicroChannel. It offered benifits a million times more than plain old
plug and play and still no one bought it. The truth is, 98% of the
people out there with a computer will never open it up. And if they do
have to, they'll have somebody else do it. And if plug and play works
anything like the automatic network setup in WFWG, I don't even want to
fathom the possiblities.

joav
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Subject: Re: Win95 and games: good news...
Date: 1995/04/25
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