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Win95: Been there, done that.

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From: m... Mark R. Johnson
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 00:00
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In article <3n3j7a$12...@bubba.ucc.okstate.edu>,
root <ro...@wentz1.reslife.okstate.edu> wrote:

>Hahhaha, I can sniff a OS/2 zealot from a mile away.  Yup, you can run 
>separate DOS sessions with specified or automatically allocated EMS, XMS, or 
>DPMI memory, different environment size, configurable conventional memory 
>amount, separate autoexec.bat and config.sys for each dos app.

OS/2 has been doing all this since 2.0

>There is an idiot proof dialogue to set up support for: mouse, disk cache, 
>doskey, expanded memory manager, and direct disk access for each dos session. 
> Just click on the choices.  For any other devices, it's simple to add the 
>lines into your custom config.

Sounds a lot like warp to me.

>It's really cool to be able to run DOS games in a window and stuff, although 
>I prefer to switch to full-screen with a quick alt-enter.  The really cool 
>stuff, though, is gonna be the crop of new games optimized for Win95 using 
>the WING libraries.  I really couldn't live without the backward 
>compatibility offered by Win95 for both Windows apps and dos apps (read: 
>games ;) and I'd guess that most gamers would feel the same way.
>
>	- Rich

Gee, OS/2 does all this now, has been doing it for years, and will 
continue to do it.  Get a clue.

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From: m...@knapp24.res.iastate.edu (Mark R. Johnson)
Subject: Win95:  Been there, done that.
Date: 1995/04/20
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