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Article #3532Re: Windows 95 & Microsoft (vs OS/2?) : long but IMHO good! :-)
From: x... Ken
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 00:00
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 00:00
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ko...@chat.carleton.ca (Ka On Lee) wrote: >Do you know what really *hold* me off from Win95? The stupidness of >Windows advocate like this one: make 9 post in order to make a few >points and make some insult. Ah. So you will decide what OS to use based on whether you lik eme personally ? Good technical move! >Ken (x...@ix.netcom.com) wrote: >> The fact is that Win95 runs my win3.11 software faster that win3.11 or >> OS/2. (graphics intensive and disk intensive apps that benefit from >> the new video/disk drivers. >The test of PC World tells the other way: Win95 is a bit slower than >Win3.1 for Win16 apps. May be they use old builds? Yes. Consider .. trhe device drivers are 32 bit. The display driver is 32 bit. These factors alone help. Raw calc speed? Probably not. >I have never use OS/2, but the Win95 interface confuse the hell out of >me in the first hour test on my friends machine and I am a 4 years >windows veteran. Those short cut thing is stupid. I have to open >Explorer, right click to creat a short cut, find the new short cut >from the long file list and drag it to the place I want. And finally >click on the name to change "Short cut to XYZ.EZE" to something >meaningful. There should be one single command like "creat a short >cut on Desktop and use the right name". Or.. you could simply right click and drag. =================================================== Xanadu Enterprises Inc./Data Alchemists x...@ix.netcom.com "Do, or do not. There is no try." - Yoda .signature virus 4.119 REV A Copy me to YOUR .signature please!
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From: x...@ix.netcom.com (Ken) Subject: Re: Windows 95 & Microsoft (vs OS/2?) : long but IMHO good! :-) Date: 1995/07/26 Message-ID: <3v3sio$rul@ixnews3.ix.netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 106861768 distribution: world references: <3t91i2$3gt@oslo-nntp.eunet.no> <3t99np$74c@onramp.arc.nasa.gov> <3t9e83$f4q@oslo-nntp.eunet.no> <3t9oft$85n@onramp.arc.nasa.gov> <DB84JC.4nq@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <3tf6g5$atg@seymour.sfu.ca> <DBBu9L.Av6@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <3t <3tnlg3$f5a@lynx.unm.edu> <3tnsq2$l23@agate.berkeley.edu> <DBJ5LJ.E3K@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca> <3unnm5$kbg@ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> <DC39uB.3q7@cunews.carleton.ca> organization: Xanadu Enterprises Inc. reply-to: x...@ix.netcom.com newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit