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In article <D9FBK...@freenet.niagara.com>, bwh...@freenet.niagara.com
(Brett Whitty) wrote:

> Allan Hall (vis...@shsu.edu) wrote:
> 
> : (prefered for speed and compatability). This system is guarenteed to run
> : any dos game that you could normally run under dos, and when you need the
> : multitasking and crash protection of OS/2 you simply reboot selecting
> : OS/2. (BTW My copy of win95 did not have any such boot manager, it did
> : however allow you to boot to "dos mode" which is still not anywhere near
> : as compatable as REAL DOS!)
> 
> Geez, you're smoking the good crack.  OF COURSE YOU CAN RUN ANY DOS GAME, 
> BECAUSE YOU'RE RUNNING DOS.  Why not just save yourself the hundred bucks 
> and stay as far away from Warp as possible.  Win 95 does claim to have a

   Because my "cracking smoking" friend, As you will notice i said "when
you need the multitasking and crash protection os OS/2". That is why...
 
> boot manager, but I'll be damned if I can find it.  HOWEVER, when you say 
> that win 95's reboot to DOS mode is nowhere near as compatible as real 
> DOS, IT IS DOS.  When you reboot to DOS with Win 95, your PC only touches

   Then why would Descent lock up at the exit to the first level, and why
did Comanche refuse to run at all? Never had those problems under PCDOS
7...
 
> the files it would when it was, say, booting up DOS 6.  I would not even 
> compare Win 95 to Warp...  Win 95 is multitasking version of Windows, and 
> it's good windows.  OS/2 Warp is a real low-level operating system that 
> is very nice and good, but my Colorado Jumbo 250 won't work under it...

   Didn't buy the software for it did you? I have a Colorado Jumbo 250
here running flawlessly under Warp with Backmaster. I can format a tape in
the background and the only way I know it's working is listening to the
drive (something I could never do under Windows and was a severe pain
under win95).

> 
> I killed Warp because it was annoying, and Win 95 is just the thing that 
> boots up before I exit to the DOS prompt...
> 
> Regardless of what anyone my claim, I know firsthand, stuff does not run 
> under OS/2....

   Such as?

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