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From: bar... barryn on BIX
Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1995 00:00

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x...@ix.netcom.com (Ken) writes:
bar...@BIX.com (barryn on BIX) wrote:
:>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.

: As does Win95 .. you know, for a technical author I would expect you
:to have at least a passing familiarity with this stuff.

Heh. Let me tell *you* the story: I gave one of my sons a 486/33, the
Win9x beta, and Flight Simulator 5.0. Win9x installed slowly and with
some difficulty (ScanDisk is awful). About five seconds into Flight
Simulator (in a DOS full screen session), Win9x popped up a dialog
box that said Win9x couldn't run FS in a session. My son and I ripped
Win9x off the PC (with some difficulty!) and installed Warp. Warp runs
FS in a full screen session just fine.

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.

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From: bar...@BIX.com (barryn on BIX)
Subject: Re: Windows 95 & OS/2 - Games
Date: 1995/07/29
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