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Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96)

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From: yn... Yann Nicolas
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 00:00
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>not only can i run my tape backup under windows 95.. 
>i am using archive backup exec which is a 16 bit dos application.
>it formats, reads, writes, and walks the dog. 
> while..
>   i am running photoshop, winvn, netscape, eudora, paintshop pro 3.0,
>a 28.8 slip connection.
> while ....
>   i am downloading in netscape, viewing another page, have five med. size
>pics in photoshop, creating thumbnails in paintshop, downloading uuencoded 
>text, reading some of this bull, and then i load descent..
>oops..
>whats wrong,
>  i dont understand it
>     how could this be.
>        it works!

Yup... I will second that opinion... I can do all that at the same
time and still have ~75% of my resources left...

And for Warp users, you should have been to the PC Expo this week in
NYC... 95% of *all* hardware AND software manufacturers were running
on Win95 *only* (Compaq, Dell, Gateway, Symantec, etc...) The only
people not using it were IBM and Apple... And I'm telling you that IBM
sure wasn't pushing Warp very hard... Even PowerPCs were running on
WindowsNT with a Windows95 GUI (that was a little eriee)!! Harsh
reality, but reality nonetheless...

So the bottom line is: wether you like it or not...

As far as gaming go, I can run 99% of all my games (many! Doom2,
Descent, FX Fighter, Flight Simulator 5.1, Full Throttle, etc... ) in a DOS
box (running on Release Candidate 1 Build 490c)...

My prediction: IBM will drop OS/2 within a year and concentrate on Notes...

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From: yn...@aloha.cc.columbia.edu (Yann Nicolas)
Subject: Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96)
Date: 1995/06/23
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