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Article #3539Re: Windows 95 & OS/2 - Games
From: bak... Arvind Bakhru
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 00:00
Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 00:00
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barryn on BIX (bar...@BIX.com) wrote: : saro...@Direct.CA (Shaya Roudafshan) writes: : :Windows 95 can do this... no problem. If you have 4 megs o' ram, set : :the program to run in DOS-MODE and it runs BETTER than it runs in dos : :6.22 and below... cause it runs in dos 7.0. : Eh? What's so wonderful about DOS 7? My budget for DOS upgrades went : to zero years ago. Is there a single feature in DOS 7 I should be : willing to spend money on? : :For Windows 95... NO problem whatsoever. Again... run in MS-DOS MODE : :if you have 4 megs of ram. : You mean -- close all my files; exit my apps; unload Win9x; then : run the game? Tedious. I'm too impatient to go through all that work. : OS/2 lets you run games in full-screen DOS sessions without closing : files and apps. Concurrent access. Multi-tasking. : Barry Nance : author of "Using OS/2 Warp", "Introduction to Networking", : "Client/Server LAN Programming", "Networking Windows for Workgroups", : and "Connecting with LAN Server". BYTE Magazine Contributing Editor. What games? -Arvi :)
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From: bak...@course2.harvard.edu (Arvind Bakhru) Subject: Re: Windows 95 & OS/2 - Games Date: 1995/07/24 Message-ID: <3v0fs2$tp@decaxp.harvard.edu> X-Deja-AN: 106861351 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 followup-to: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy organization: Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit