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On 19 Apr 1995, JORDAN SPENSER AARON wrote:

> Sure it can run several, multithreaded applications at the same time.  

Everything I'v heard about Win95 says it is still a 16 bit (at heart) 
coopertive multitasking os.  Sure it will run serveral apps, but it 
doesn't pre-emt, so (from what I understand) if a WIN95 app locks up while 
calculating or something, the whole system will lock up, since the program has 
control over the processor.  (correct me if I am wrong) Also, I would still get 
the little annoying hour glass telling me I have to wait till what I am 
currently doing is done.  In a sense, that IS running several apps at the 
same time.

> 
> >Warping... NOT Waiting...
> >Working... NOT Playing...
> 
> And what kind of work are you doing?  So, just how many business, 
> scientific, etc applications are written specifically for OS2.  Odds are 
> you are working on OS2 with windows applications; which in the future, 
> wil be written to take advantage of Windows '95

I will say that I run OS/2 and do not run any win3.1 apps with it.  I use 
Lotus Smart Suites.  I've seen Microsoft's Office, and it didn't impress 
me.  Everything I run, I can get an OS/2 version of it.  True, it may not 
have ALL the bells & whistles as the Window version, but 99% of those I 
don't care about - ie: Bubble help if AMI Pro 3.1  -- What a waste of 
code, bloating the programs and causing me to run out of drive space.

There are many other OS/2 native apps out there: Corel Draw, Microsoft 
Word (and they said OS/2 was dead) Word Perfect (I think they dropped 
it) and others which do not come to my mind at this early hour of the day.  
 
> 
> Oh, and sure I will be playing...  Windows '95 will be a great gaming 
> platform <insert flame here> as all of the major game developers are 
> writing for it.  

>From my experience, Window games suck.  The much talked about Myst is an 
example - NO smooth scrolling amimation (except if you count that 30X30 
window in the maze), you hear moving water, but everything is still 
frames.  

> Sure OS2 will have great games too; GC being my case in point.  I 
> believe, however, that the majority of the really cool games will be 
> unavailable for the poor souls in the, "I love OS2 and I don't care even 
> if Microsoft is cruching us," camp.  

 If Microsoft cruches OS/2, then I'll most to Linux or another UNIX os 
before I go to Windows.  At least I know I will have TRUE multitasking 
capabilities and not some re-worked DOS/WIN3.1 combo stirred up and 
repackaged.


Mike W. Stone