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Article #905Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96)
From: yn... Yann Nicolas
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 1995 00:00
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... (~~~) *=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=* ( Yann Nicolas ) =*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*= (~~~) |\| Columbia U. Libraries -- ALLEZ RENNES!! -- nic...@columbia.edu |/| |\| ________________/ SiXXX in '96!! \____________ Go 49ers! |/| (___) *=*=*=' http://www.cc.columbia.edu/~yn25/soccer.html `=*=*=*=* (___)
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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 Message-ID: <3semjf$np5@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> X-Deja-AN: 104867898 references: <3q8ngd$rej@cville-srv.wam.umd.edu> <Pine.A32.3.91.950530041328.50503C-100000@ <vis_cah-3105950721560001@xdial1-slip1.shsu.edu> <3sdhju$p9@its.hooked.net> organization: Columbia University newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit