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Chairman Mao (m...@ripco.com) wrote:
: Gordon Stacey (gst...@morgan.ucs.mun.ca) wrote:


: : Here's a comment. Why does MS think that the every day joe needs W95 ? 
: : I mean huge apps, more bugs, new learning, for nominal performance 
: : increase (remember every day joe, not multi-tasking hunger beasts). 
: : There are so many people just getting comfort

: : able with current operating systems and Front ends that introducing new 
: :will just confuse them more than they are. I think more effort should be 
: :put into new areas such as unthought of apps for windows, OS2, Dos, etc 
: :(yes, i know w3.11 is not an OS) 

: Somewhere in there you mentioned a "performance increase"...

: Unless shit has happened, we're looking at yet another GUI with a 
: huge-fucking-mungous overhead. With the big overhead comes a reduction in 
: performance.

: The only thing GUI's have going for them, as far as quasi-literate computer 
: people go, is a multitasker that, more often than not, simply crashes the 
: whole computer...

Since this in a gaming base area I'll talk about the advantages of Win95 
over Win31 and why you should switch. First off it is much much more 
backwards compatible with DOS games. Win95 was designed to accomodate 
gamers and is much easier to program games for. Games will run faster not 
slower in Win95. No longer will you have to worry about running boot 
disks or a memory managers. It will stabilize and standardize drivers. 
Which should make some of those non SB16 16-bit sound cards actually work 
at 16 bit instead of defaulting down to SB compatible 8-bit. It makes it 
easier for programers because they only have to program for a select few 
windows drivers. Hopefully we will higher resolution games. It will 
support and standardizes 3d Rendering Graphic Cards (soon to become a big 
thing in the gaming world). Long file names are a good thing,not bad.