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In article <3n4ff7$g...@news.iastate.edu> m...@knapp24.res.iastate.edu (Mark R. Johnson) writes:
>From: m...@knapp24.res.iastate.edu (Mark R. Johnson)
>Subject: Win95:  Been there, done that.
>Date: 20 Apr 1995 02:04:23 GMT

>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.

Win 3.1 will do just fine for me for at least another year.  Let Microsoft 
work out the kinks on their dime not mine.  

Greg
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