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On 19 Apr 1995, Eric the Kidder wrote:

> Out of curiosity, what is the point of the Win95-OS/2 debate?

Probably goes down to self-interest.  Users of each want their product to
be widely accepted, so that more developers will write for that platform. 
The more developers, the more software, and the better the choice of
applications. 

> Currently, I am in the process of getting both.  I have OS/2, but it
> doesn't seem to work too well, something about not having enough memory...

How much do you have?  I wouldn't run it on anything less than 8mg (what I
have on my home machine), but 12 or even 16 is much nicer (I have 16mg
here at work).  If you want, I suggest checking out the various
comp.os.os2 groups (try setup, misc, and apps -- as well as game :-). 
There you will find lots of tips on improving performance.  

> I also use Windows 3.1, because of 4 products that Microsoft made I use a lot:
> MS Word
> MS Excel
> MS Powerpoint
> MS Access

Try the fastload option under Warp (or, if you're using an earlier 
version, simply place a small Windows app, such as clock, in your startup 
folder) -- that will load the Windows kernel at startup (making your 
bootup longer, by the way).  Since Windows will already be loaded, 
starting up these applictions will be a fraction of the time required to 
start them from "scratch."  Remember, if you don't have any Windows code 
"active" and click on Word, OS/2 has to start Windows _first_ then load 
Word -- a better speed comparison would be to compare the time it would 
take to load Word from DOS (such as typing "win word" -- if you can do 
that with Word; you can with various other Windows apps, so I suspect you 
can do it with Word).

JOHN

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