Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!

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From: r... Robert Woodcock
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 1995 00:00

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PALMER THOMAS L (fs...@aurora.alaska.edu) composed eloquently:
>OS/2 Warp is the absolute worst OS I have ever seen. I bought it seening 
>as everyone claimed it was so good. Not only was I unable to get it to 
>install because of my Western Digital EIDE drive,

Really? It installed quite nicely this morning on my WD drive. I'm using 
it to type this message right now.

>IBM could give me NO HELP WHAT SO EVER.

I can't comment on tech support, haven't needed to call yet. :)

>With the ability to get 45fps out of a game on a 486/66 with a DOS game 
>that could only get 30fps in DOS on a P-75 how can you go wrong???

I'd find this very hard to believe, since *all* dos emulation requires
some overhead. A DOS game will run faster in DOS than in any other OS.
Most DOS games access video memory directly; you just can't get any
faster than that.
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Subject: Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!
Date: 1995/08/25
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