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Article #91Re: Win95 and games: good news...
From: jlwo... Jeffrey Lee Woodall
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 00:00
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 1995 00:00
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: The problems you have multitasking games under Windows 95 are due to : the fact that Windows 95 DOESN'T MULTITASK THEM. OS/2 does. It's : possible, I suppose, that sometime in the future we'll have 32 bit Windows : 95 games that the OS CAN multitask, and in that case you'll have better : luck downloading at the same time as playing a game, but until then, : it's not your term program man, it's the OS. Windows 95 does simple : rudimentary task switching on 16 bit DOS programs, just like Windows 3.1 : did. It's up to the game itself to yield to another program, the OS has : no control over it. So are you saying I wasn't just multitasking Dark Forces with Telix earlier tonight? I could have SWORN I was. Amazing. This guy sounds like he hasn't even used Win95. Jeff
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From: jlwo...@unity.ncsu.edu (Jeffrey Lee Woodall) Subject: Re: Win95 and games: good news... Date: 1995/04/19 Message-ID: <3n26k9$mfa@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> X-Deja-AN: 101089413 references: <3mtquj$hq2@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> <3mu3la$5rd@news.dgsys.com> <3mudgi$i32@taco.cc.ncsu.edu> <D77DB2.D2t@cdf.toronto.edu> <3n0uh0$8eb@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> followup-to: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc organization: North Carolina State University newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit