Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96)

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From: ber... Markos Berndt
Date: Wed, 26 Jul 1995 00:00

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In <a3O5mqrP...@vestnett.no> ter...@vestnett.no (Terje A. Bergesen) writes: 
>
>In article <3ur5qs$f8_...@line04.socketis.net>,
>jco...@socketis.net (Jody Cooper) wrote:
>> In article <DC3Fq...@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca>,
>>    rjva...@cantor.math.uwaterloo.ca (Rob Vanden Heuvel) wrote:
>> 
>> >Yet Microsoft has achieved compatibility which, by all reports on
this 
>> >newsgroup at least, are no better than OS/2s.  Now seeing that OS/2
is
>> >a fully 32-bit OS, please explain to me again why it was so
necessary for
>> >Win95 to use so much 16-bit code?  Hmmm?
>> 
>> Two words:  Backwards Compatibility.
>
>But it seems like Win95 is not that much more compatible than OS/2.
>Several of my games will not run unless I run it in SAM - which is
>ALMOST like booting back to DOS, and one or two of the will not
>run unless I really boot back to DOS. This is about the same as I get
>with OS/2. The apps that work under Win95 seemed to work under
>OS/2. The apps that needed SAM or booting into DOS I ran under by
>double booting to DOS.
>
>Now, I don't run Win95 anymore. The only MS OS I have on my
>computer is WinNT 3.51. Compared to Windows 95 this is FAAAR
>better. Why anyone with 16M or more RAM would ever run Win95
>is beyond me. Why people with large HD's would even dream of
>running Win95 is beyond me. Why waste all the HD space?
>
>
>______________________________________________________________________

>Terje Bergesen - Bergesen Da


Windows95 is a test for the interface for NT Cairo,  eventually NT will
become the OS that Microsoft will choose.  Cause they can't afford to
kepp all of those OS forever.
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From: ber...@ix.netcom.com (Markos Berndt)
Subject: Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96)
Date: 1995/07/26
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