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Re: Windows 95 & OS/2 - Games

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From: Ku... Cyber Ice
Date: Wed, 02 Aug 1995 00:00

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In article <3vchk5$n...@ixnews4.ix.netcom.com> x...@ix.netcom.com (Ken) writes:
>From: x...@ix.netcom.com (Ken)
>Subject: Re: Windows 95 & OS/2 - Games
>Date: Sat, 29 Jul 1995 08:45:05 GMT

>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.

>        It is not uncommon around here to run net Descent games ull scree
>while software transfers or compiles are happening.

>        Full screen dos, concurrent processing on both 16 and 32 bit software.

you can even do it in a window instead of full screen. try that with WARP! :)

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From: Ku...@uhunix.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Cyber Ice)
Subject: Re: Windows 95 & OS/2 - Games
Date: 1995/08/02
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