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Article #78Re: Win95 and games: good news...
From: jmw... Jeff Williams
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 00:00
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 00:00
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In <3n1932$c...@csc.mc.edu>, swil...@csc.mc.edu (Stephen Wilhelm) writes: > Win95 should run DOS programs about as well >as OS/2 though. It doesn't. Windows 95, according to the information I have (a comparison chart of features of OS/2 and Windows 95), runs all 16 bit programs in the same address space. So, programs may run as fast or faster than OS/2, but Win95 shares the same inherent structural flaws as Win 3.1 - the crash of a single program will bring down every single 16 bit program you're running at the time, and possibly the whole system. So, is this running DOS programs as well as OS/2? Given the notorious instability of many DOS and Windows apps., it's not better in my opinion. // Jeff Williams // NYU UGFTV/Cinema Studies // jmw...@is2.nyu.edu
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From: jmw...@is2.nyu.edu (Jeff Williams) Subject: Re: Win95 and games: good news... Date: 1995/04/19 Message-ID: <3n1nl4$ipp@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> X-Deja-AN: 101089438 references: <3mtquj$hq2@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> <3mu3la$5rd@news.dgsys.com> <3mudgi$i32@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <3muf9d$13u@agate.berkeley.edu> <sjYhE4C00YUJI9lARc@andrew.cmu.edu> <D77Mqv.B5u@news.cis.umn.edu> <3n1932$c6t@csc.mc.edu> organization: New York University reply-to: jmw...@is2.nyu.edu (Jeff Williams) newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit