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Jon (rein...@maroon.tc.umn.edu) wrote:
> Fuck OS/2.  OS/2 is going to be dead. 

OS/2 is going to be dead?  Win95 isn't even out yet, and you already
know that OS/2 is going to be dead?  Hmmm....I seem to remember the
same threat with WinNT....I also seem to remember a History teacher of
mine saying that history repeats itself.....

> I've had so many bad expeiriences with warp it's not even   
> funny.  

I must be doing something wrong, I have never had a problem.  My guess
is that you either have weird hardware, a Diamond video card (until
recently they refused to write drivers, and they told IBM that they
would sue if they tried to write one), or you don't know what you are
doing.  OS/2 isn't for everyone, it does require a certain knowledge
of how the computer runs.  Once you get past all those settings,
though, OS/2 is the best thing out there.

> ANd yes, Win95 is alot faster for games then OS/2.  OS/2 offers all
> the "amizing multitasking ability" for those who want to myltitask
> wordperfect and internet.  Its not for games 

Faster for games, eh?  Descent runs faster and smoother under OS/2
than under DOS.  Same for Doom (no sound, I hate that), and Dark
Forces.  I haven't really compared them with Win95 yet, I am still
trying to figure out how to get two Windows apps to multitask (so far
they are slower than under Win3.1 whether I am multitasking or running
them all by themselves).  Win95 should run DOS programs about as well
as OS/2 though.  

Wordperfect and Internet?  Oh, come on, surely you can see why that
would be nice.  For instance, you are downloading a big file from
somewhere.  Under Windows, you can multitask (get a cup of coffee,
watch some TV, maybe even take a nap), or you can multitask under OS/2
(type that research paper you have been putting off, play some Dark
Forces, or whatever you want to do).  

OS/2 may not be for everyone, but it can run games fairly well.
Disclaimer:  I have 20MB of RAM on my 486SX-33, so that may explain
why I can get it faster than under DOS, but it is still pretty quick
on a friends computer with 8MB.  

If you want to stay with a 64K heap, 16bit device drivers, FAT
filesystem (multiple directory entries to emulate long filenames), and
the DOS kernel, and you really don't want to multitask anything, then
I wholehardedly recomend Win95.
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