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"Charles Randolph Hunter" writes:

> Here's the facts as I see them:
> 
>         Win 95:
> 
>         advantages: fast, easy, compatible [ lets you use DOS block drivers ]

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>         disadvantages: lets you have direct port access and have
>                 slow dos emulation 

Dos works as fast if not faster for me.  Disk access especially
is much faster 
          
>                 [ no boot manager or boot compliance with other managers ]

If you're refering to the fact that Win95 disables OS2 boot manager
it is true but if you use a OS2 boot disk after Win95 has installed you
can easily re-enable the boot manager and that way have OS2 Warp, DOS
and Win95 boot partitions.

> Run a few tests for yourself. I am biased towards OS/2 so I would ask you
> to do something like this:
> run a windows application, say corel draw and then
> immediately right after you click on the icon go and try and 
> open a dos shell or another windows
> app or anything at all. In Os/2 can do this easily, while windows 95 must
> wait until the application is open. That alone is enough for me to
> prefer OS/2.

Even if it's true it's hardly the main decider on buying an operating
system is it.  Word 6 takes 2 or 3 seconds to load on my system so by 
the time I decide on the next program icon to click on it's loaded 
already.  

-- 
Mark Rogers.
- Founder member of VFF - Veggie Freedom Fighters.
- Campaign for humain treatment of vegetables (including lettuce).