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Article #3182Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie!
From: mcr... MacDeath
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 00:00
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 1995 00:00
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Allen Clarke <a...@mround.bt.co.uk> wrote: *****SNIP**** >Win'95 is much better than Win3.1/WFWG in all respects, its more stable, >more compatible and a site easier to navigate, plus it still allows you >to run all your old DOS apps as well. well, actually i only wanna add one thing to this last bit here, from what i have heard of the few "beta-testers" of win95 that I know..... yes, it does allow you to run old dos apps, but.....yep, always the big but in the way.....that it allows ya to run most things WHEN and only when ya get the thing installed correctly....in fact most of the magazines are also telling of a cupl of their "beta-people" having BIG trouble on installation of this new os....the comments range from midly-amusing to try to set it up correctly to being a nightmare to even get the most simple things set-up right....granted these are only a handful, but when this new os hits the shelves......it will grow to be a bit more than a small handful when joe blow who knows nothing about his computer except how to turn it on, start win3.1 or win3.11 and pull up his wordperfect or whatever else applications he may use, tries to install an os that is a bit more stressfull to try and install...... l8r MacDeath and the pale horse kicks ass, too....
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From: mcr...@infinet.com (MacDeath) Subject: Re: Win95 a TRUE OS? Help a newbie! Date: 1995/08/22 Message-ID: <41dko5$fee@horus.infinet.com> X-Deja-AN: 108637506 references: <cKJ9mqrPwVz7078yn@vestnett.no> <40vl1c$d8@CUBoulder.Colorado.EDU> <4101c5$q33@news.iadfw.net> <Pine.SOL.3.91.950822124820.8703A-100000@baxter> organization: infinet.com newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.adventure,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.os.ms-windows.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit