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Re: Win95: Been there, done that.

#510
From: win...
Date: Sun, 07 May 1995 00:00
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In <fortsa.36...@wwc.edu>, for...@wwc.edu (Samuel Fortiner) writes:

>I know for a fact that OS/2 on a 486/66 with 8 meg of ram swaps like hell.  
>I've waited for over 20 seconds for it to minimize a window.  Win95 on the 
>same system doesn't swap significantly, runs faster then OS/2, and is much 
>more friendly.  OS/2 also takes significant setup to run dos games in a 
>window.  Run Magic Carpet in a Win95 dos window without setting stuff up:  
>been there, done that.  Run Magic Carpet in a OS/2 window without setting 
>stuff up:  I don't think so.

   If you're that insane to run a game as demanding as Magic Carpet in a
window, then you really don't know the difference between operating systems.

   OS/2 swaps like hell on an 8 meg system if you have a small swap file.  Increase
that swap file, and I guarantee you that OS/2 will be equal, if not faster than 
Win95.

   OS/2 requires lots of setup for DOS sessions so we can actually tell the 
computer what we need for this DOS session, and what we don't.

  As for being more friendly - I would rephrase this to being "prettier".  The user
interface on Win95 is great.
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From: win...@feldspar.com
Subject: Re: Win95:  Been there, done that.
Date: 1995/05/07
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