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Article #1901Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96)
From: big... BigBear
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 1995 00:00
Date: Sun, 25 Jun 1995 00:00
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In <vendettaD...@netcom.com> vend...@netcom.com (andrew gaul) writes: > >Alexander O. Norris (a...@ix.netcom.com) wrote: >: Hey crack smoking friend, yeah, you in the giant BLUE overalls with >: OS/2 painted all over your face: > >And are you the little snotty kid sitting in a sandbox with a Windows 95 >tattoo on your arm? :) > >: get a recent copy of the Win95 beta, ok? OS/2 SUCKS! plain and simple. > >hmm... that's funny 9 out of 10 techs I know (me included) use OS/2. >Those who don't use Linux. > >: how well does OS/2 handle multimdeia huh? > >great! Considering the fact that I have run CD Player and two video >files at the sime time (486DX2/66) > >: how about sound cards, joysticks, etc? > >OS/2 supports all major sound boards. what did you expect? > >: What, you didn't mention the LONG, TEDIOUS, configuration info you need >: to setup for every DOS program you run? > >none. OS/2 runs 95% of all applications out of box. if you want to >improve the speed of a particular app, fiddle with the configuration. >That simple. Much like tweaking the CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files. > >: Too bad, Win95 does it AUTOMATICALLY. > >And OS/2 doesn't? Gee, what's that little Migrate Applications icon >sitting in my System Setup folder. Let's go click on it... Migrate DOS, >Windows and OS/2 programs? Sure. What? You found Doom, Civilization, >and Word 6.0? That's nice... > >: What can run DOS programs better than DOS 7.0 (win95)???? > >are you saying that Windows 95 is running under DOS? That's not good. >'Coz Windows is supposed to be 32-bit and now it can't do that under DOS, >right? oh, wait, they re-wrote DOS to be 32-bit? well, then it isn't >DOS anymore is it? > >: 'Nuff said > >Yes, you cetainly have said enough. Sorry I had to rip you up like that, >but somebody's got to tell you. To all you Windows 95 advocates: this is >almost a carbon copy of the post i will be writing to you if you start >lieing again... <g> > >Vendetta I agree, that OS2/WARP can kick the shit out of Win95. I tell you this, there is a still a use for Win95, since OS2/WARP can only run 95% of Windows programs. You will still need windows to run the other 5% and you can use the disks to wipe the shit off your asshole when you get done taking a shit. Well unless you have the CD-ROM version, then you have a good frizbee to though around the yard. Big_...@ix.netcom.com
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From: big_...@ix.netcom.com (Big_Bear ) Subject: Re: OS/2 vs Win'95(or '96) Date: 1995/06/25 Message-ID: <3sisen$aqs@ixnews5.ix.netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 104991896 distribution: world references: <vendettaDApDvy.L0C@netcom.com> organization: Netcom 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.sys.ibm.pc.games.f MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit