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Yann Nicolas <yn...@aloha.cc.columbia.edu> wrote:

>>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...

It's rather amusing to see this.  This is exactly the type of thing
OS/2 users have been trying to tell people for the last 3+ years.
Funny how it never was important until Windows could do it too.

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

No matter which OS you prefer, that would be very very bad.
Competition between OS/2 and Windows has gotten us lower prices,
multimedia, Internet access tools, lots of bundled apps, true
multitasking, memory protection, robust DOS boxes, etc.  True we
would have gotten them anyway, but you can bet we got them a lot
sooner as the two companies tried to outdo each other.
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