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Re: Win95 and games: good news...

#95
From: Gr... David Green
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 00:00
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In article <3n26v0$m...@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>,
   jlwo...@unity.ncsu.edu (Jeffrey Lee Woodall) wrote:
>sch...@Direct.CA wrote:
>: In <3mudgi$i...@taco.cc.ncsu.edu>, jlwo...@unity.ncsu.edu (Jeffrey Lee 
Woodall) writes:
>: >Kevin Hurley (khu...@dgsys.com) wrote:
>: >
>: >: : PS: OS/2 users will tell me that "OS/2 did that a long time ago", but
>: >: : I tried it and didn't like it...
>: >
>: >: 	Whether you liked it or not OS/2 has been doing that for a long
>: >: time.
>
>:  [snip]
>
>
>: >OS/2 does not allow you to actually sit down and write a seprate 
>: >Config.sys and autoexec.bat for each DOS program.  Instead it offers nice 
>: >little features like XGA_TRAP and the like.  Thanks, but no thanks.
>
>:   This thread should be moved to comp.os.os2.advocacy. 

(Oh! If only!)

>
>: BTW, OS/2 Warp allows you to have *CUSTOMIZED* autoexec.bats and device 
>: statements for *E A C H* DOS session.
>
>
>ARRRRGGGGEEE!!!!  You people have NO CLUE!!!  I can't belive how many 
>people get on here and post when they have not even used Win95.  I can 
>write my own Config.sys and autoexec.bat for EACH DOS PROGRAM.  I have 
>done it, and it works well.  Please stop spreading untruths about Win95 
>when you have not used it yet.  Better yet, get a clue.  You are making 
>the real OS/2 users look like idiots, which they are not.

I've actually used both OS's and they both seem great - both allowing  
separate configurations for DOS programs, both multi-tasking very well, both 
support Win3.1x applications...  but I think the real question we should be 
asking here is:

   "WHY THE F**K IS THIS STUPID SLAGGING MATCH TAKING PLACE ON THIS FORUM?"

Just thought I'd ask.  Now PISS off :).



David Green ......................... David...@Abacus.org.uk
                                      Gr...@Criterion.canon.co.uk

              "Games:  Networked or nothing!"

   "If you don't have the green, you can't make the scene"
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From: Gr...@Criterion.Canon.co.uk (David Green)
Subject: Re: Win95 and games: good news...
Date: 1995/04/19
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