Re: Win95 and games: good news...

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From: gl...
Date: Tue, 09 May 1995 00:00

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In <3oj8vk$g...@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>, mar...@ux5.cso.uiuc.edu (John Marconi) writes:
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>I don't think that that is true.  I run both of them now and I firmly 
>believe that NT can handle many more programs simultaneously than can 
>OS/2.  And, even with NT's vast hardware requirements, it seems to be much 
>quicker at loading them simultaneously.  OS/2 also has some serious other 
>problems that don't seem to make it practical for many users.  For 
>instance, using the modem while multitasking another program causes severe 
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>problems (at least for me it did).  Also, from what I've seen, NT has very 
>similar hardware compatibility as does OS/2.  
>

I just want to point out this is why I moved from DOS/WIN 3.1 to OS/2 when 
2.0 came out. I could finally multitask on a PC while downloading. This has
always worked flawlessly for me under OS/2 and it sucks under NT because
there aren't any Win32 comm programs released yet.

Glenn Davies
Vancouver BC

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Subject: Re: Win95 and games: good news...
Date: 1995/05/09
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