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Article #439Win95: Been there, done that.
From: m... Mark R. Johnson
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 00:00
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 1995 00:00
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In article <3n3j7a$12...@bubba.ucc.okstate.edu>, root <ro...@wentz1.reslife.okstate.edu> wrote: >Hahhaha, I can sniff a OS/2 zealot from a mile away. Yup, you can run >separate DOS sessions with specified or automatically allocated EMS, XMS, or >DPMI memory, different environment size, configurable conventional memory >amount, separate autoexec.bat and config.sys for each dos app. OS/2 has been doing all this since 2.0 >There is an idiot proof dialogue to set up support for: mouse, disk cache, >doskey, expanded memory manager, and direct disk access for each dos session. > Just click on the choices. For any other devices, it's simple to add the >lines into your custom config. Sounds a lot like warp to me. >It's really cool to be able to run DOS games in a window and stuff, although >I prefer to switch to full-screen with a quick alt-enter. The really cool >stuff, though, is gonna be the crop of new games optimized for Win95 using >the WING libraries. I really couldn't live without the backward >compatibility offered by Win95 for both Windows apps and dos apps (read: >games ;) and I'd guess that most gamers would feel the same way. > > - Rich Gee, OS/2 does all this now, has been doing it for years, and will continue to do it. Get a clue. -- _____________________________________________________________________________ |Mark R. Johnson "To defend, this is the pact" | |m...@iastate.edu "But when life is scorned, and damage done"| |<Team OS/2> "To avenge, this is the pact" |
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From: m...@knapp24.res.iastate.edu (Mark R. Johnson) Subject: Win95: Been there, done that. Date: 1995/04/20 Message-ID: <3n4ff7$g01@news.iastate.edu> X-Deja-AN: 101263425 references: <3mtquj$hq2@apakabar.cc.columbia.edu> <3n0rvg$13vn@bubba.ucc.okstate.edu> <3n1n10$ipp@cmcl2.NYU.EDU> <3n3j7a$12em@bubba.ucc.okstate.edu> organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 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.flight-sim,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc,comp.os.os2.games MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit