Re: Win95 and games: good news...

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From: khc... Oliver Chung
Date: Sat, 06 May 1995 00:00

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In <3of2ea$6...@news.xmission.com>, dfa...@xmission.com writes:
>In <D82n4...@news.cis.umn.edu>, Jon <rein...@maroon.tc.umn.edu> writes:
>>Date: Thu, 4 May 1995 20:56:44 GMT
>>
>>vme...@cs.utwente.nl (Richard R. van Meurs) wrote:
>>>In article <3nj6n6$l...@krypton.hpc.sdsmt.edu>, dmp...@silver.sdsmt.edu (Derik Pates) writes:
>>>
>>>[stuff from previous postings deleted ...]
>>>
>>>|> You're SLIGHTLY right. Part of Windows is still 16-bit. But, it's mostly
>>>|> 32-bit code now. It has pre-emptive multitasking, multithreading, and
>
>
>WAIT A MINUTE!!! - I thought preemptive multitasking was one of the things
>that WIN95 was not going to include....I've run the beta and was not
>too impressed with the speed of thread changing, if it's preemptive...
>
>HMMMMM.

It still cooperatively multitask Win16 apps, and due to the
Win16mutex(sp?), a single Win16 apps can slowdown the whole system
just like in Win3.x.  So, unless you mainly run DOS apps in
Windows or buy a whole bunch of new apps, you won't get much
benefit in terms of multitasking.  I heard that the performance of
DOS apps is improved compared to running them in Win3.x.

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Oliver Chung
<khc...@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu>                 __  __    _
+Department of Physics, The Ohio State University+  |  |(__' /`_)
+----------> My opinions are my own <------------+  |__|.__)/ /__

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From: khc...@pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu       (Oliver Chung)
Subject: Re: Win95 and games: good news...
Date: 1995/05/06
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