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Victor Healey (vhe...@crl.com) wrote:

> Just to show you the difference if you have a copy of both Warp and W95 
> final release try this.

> Run the best video that os/2 has. I remember the one that had the two 
> parrots necking, another with fish, a multimedia flight thru a city.
> Look at the size of the orginal files. Look at how jerky they are if you 
> are doing anything else. Notice that they run in a relativle small box 
> and last note you can only run ONE of them in this multi tasking OS.

I have done this for an OS/2 demo.  You can resize the pictures
(loosing picture sharpness), and I have been able to run 5 at a time
without any video slowdown.  The ones that come with OS/2 aren't
great, but there are others out there.  At the same time I was
printing from AmiPro/2 and formating a floppy (typical OS/2
propaganda).  No real slowdown.  I have a 486SX-33 with 16MB of RAM
and a 420MB IDE drive (nothing flashy).

> Look at the W95 CD and find FUNSTUFF, go to videos and then pick my 
> favorite "Goodtimes". Small box ?  Grab the side and pull. Did you notice 
> you can make that thing full screen and it still works! I ran that last 
> night at a programers house after we installed W95 on his machine while 
> he was running scandisk on his C: drive. Didn't miss a beat on his machine.

I haven't tried this, I think I will, just for comparison sake  :)

> But what really is interesting is that you can run more then one video 
> or several copies of the same video. Obviously this works best if you try 
> running them from a scsi hard drive as the disk i/o is pretty intense.
> Now personally I think that is neat! That is what I expect of a multi 
> tasking, multi threading os on the expensive hardware I have. WARP just 
> isn't as polished IMHO.

Same with OS/2.  I agree with the SCSI part.  After a while you start
slowing down with IDE.  I have seen SCSI in action, and the
improvement is great!  I highly recommend it whether you are running
Win95, OS/2, NT, or any other multithreaded OS out there.  I have done
quite a bit of multimedia with Warp, and I have not noticed any of the
slowness you have.  My assumption is that you have 8MB of RAM.  In my
opinion, that is too little for MMOS/2, way too little (I don't care
what IBM claims, it is too little).  It may be that Win95 does a
better job of multimedia at 8MB.  As I said, I will definately have to
try it and see.  I do know that there are a few things that OS/2 does
better than Win95 at 8MB, and visa versa.  From what I have seen, I
recommend 16MB for both.  But, in all honesty, if I had an 8MB
machine, I would seriously consider Win95.  At 16, I think OS/2 is
better.  Its your decision.
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