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sv...@oslonett.no (Sven Anders Robbestad) wrote:
>gen...@netcom.com wrote:
>
>>I doubt that. I've been using WFWG at work for a long time and I've also
>>used Windows 3.1 at home. One thing both those program's don't do well
>>is multi-task high speed comunications programs!. When you try
[snippie]
>Well, Windows 95 certainly multitasks comms programs remarkably well.
>I use Free Agent to download and get all subject headers and article
>bodies, whislt downloading something from Netscape while at the same
>time I'm at some FTP base somewhere downloading something else. Oh, I
>am also regularly running Eudora to check my mail. Never had a single
>error!
>
>If that isn't proof enough for you, I don't know what is!
>
>(I downloaded some Midi files at the same time, I unzipped it with
>Winzip and played it during the SAME session - NO halts or errors!)
>
>BTW: I've got a 486/50 with 16mb Ram.
>
>Sven 
>
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I use win '95 at home.
I stay connected to the 'net via an 28.8 modem and I sometimes get mail in the background while
I am playing a dos game in full-screen mode.  I download/decompress files while I am doing 
whatever I want in the foreground (watching .avi files or mpegs or dos games)
Nary a problem.
I am a win95 convert.  I have no real complaints.  The networking is excellent, the interface
is pleasant and administering it has been a snap.  It supports dos games better than dos did
(in my experience) - I now have all my devices set up in dos and also have over 600K free 
without trying.
I tend to think of these amiga and os/2 users in the same context.  They have some obscure
system that may have a couple of superior salient features or better base architecture at the
expense of compatibility (I am talking about drivers/peripherals/etc) and they cling to it with
the tenacity of a zealot.  Not good grounds for an objective opinion, I would say.
I also use linux.  I am a sysadmin for a site with 30 or so linux machines.  I don't believe
that anyone would seriously suggest that a normal user be subjected to Unix.