Win95 and games: good news...

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From: hkc... Chan Hoong Keong
Date: Wed, 10 May 1995 00:00

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In article <3oobsv$f...@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> khc...@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu writes:

 > >I am sorry but a computer running two tasks is slower than a computer
 > >running 1 task.  Even if the tasks are relatively light.
 > 
 > Not when your task is mainly idle.  Guess how much CPU does a
 > 14.4k download takes?  Less then 10% on a 486.  Two tasks that
 > take up < 50% CPU each (or less when including multitasking
 > overhead) can be run simultaneously without any performance loss
 > on either task, *that's* multitasking, and that's what OS/2
 > delivers and Win95 won't.

 I do not agree with the last statement. Win95 does multitask from
 what I have seen. There may be differences in term of how well they
 utilize the CPU, but it is not true to say Win95 simply *won't*
 multitask.

 As for which multitasks better, I cannot say from my experiences since
 I have never seen OS/2.

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