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Article #3223Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!
From: Eugen... Eugen Woiwod
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 00:00
Date: Fri, 28 Jul 1995 00:00
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> > No it won't. Microsoft has already given it the kiss of death. It > is probably the first time in the history of computing where a major > product was pronounced "dead" while it was still in BETA. This is > exactly what Microsoft has stated relative to Win 95. It it NOT even > released and Microsoft has proclaimed that is will be short-lived. Oh, and WHERE exactly has Microsoft said that WIN95 is dead? I watch TV, read magazines and read Usenet group's, and I SURE as hell did NOT see any announcement that WIN95 is dead. I think you OS/2 folk's need to realize that OS/2 is not the "ALL WONDERFUL" OS. In fact OS/2 is often a bitch to install, supported driver's for soundcard's, and cd drive's/printer's is pathetic, and MOST dos games dont even work under OS/2, you often end up booting DOS anyways to play them. Sure if your lucky you can get a driver for your hardware off the internet, otherwise your proably up a creek without a paddle. Now if you take a look at the supported driver's for WIN95, that's a different story. On the Microsoft WWW page I got a helpfile(910k) which LISTS all the driver's for video/sound/cdrom's/multimedi/modem's/printer's is VERY good. Now why IBM can't have the same great driver support for hardware, I dont know. Perhaps IBM should take lessons from Microsoft on "How to better support printers/soundcard's/modem's/video card's/display's etc etc". OS/2 I think, is only good if your going to run nothing but the few OS/2 app's, and perhaps some of the WINDOWS apps that you hope run under OS/2. Ttul
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From: Eugen_...@mindlink.bc.ca (Eugen Woiwod) Subject: Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie! Date: 1995/07/28 Message-ID: <75306-806976783@mindlink.bc.ca> X-Deja-AN: 107023812 distribution: world organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit