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- Subject: Re: Advise
- Date: 27 Jan 1996 15:57:51 GMT
- Organization: Kalevi, Inc.
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- On Jan 27, 1996 01:23:00 in article <Advise>,
- 'armin@sadeghi.manawatu.gen.nz (Armin Sadeghi)' wrote:
-
-
- > This might be a little off the subject, but you people seem to be
- >familiar with win95. Nowadays most people are, so if I may ask a question
-
- >- Why do you prefer Win 95? or why not?
- >I personally have heard a few not so nice things about the OS but I am
- >open to other opinions.
- >Thanks
- >:-)
-
- Well, this is off topic for comp.lang.c++, but since you asked
- so nicely..
-
- I assume your question concerns Win95 as compared to
- only those OS's available for the Intel x86 platforms. I'm
- going to limit my comments to Win3.11, Win95, and WinNT
- so OS2, linux, etc. lovers -- no offense but they just
- aren't among the 'big' players in terms of numbers in use.
-
- IMO it's a considerable improvement over Windows 3.x. Yes,
- it has some unpleasant aspects -- is any software perfect?
-
- The single most important feature of Win95 is that it's a 32-bit
- OS -- no more worrying about segments and 640K DOS limitations
- -- but that's of concern only to us developers/programmers.
-
- As a user of Win95, I'm very happy about its multitasking
- capabilities allowing me to run many large programs simul-
- taneously. I find Win95 reasonably intuitive in its day-to-day
- operations. My only major dislike is its version of the File
- Manager (Explorer as well as the "regular" one). I find myself
- still going to a DOS window (not really DOS) and doing much
- of my directory/file searching and manipulation with the keyboard.
-
- As much as I like Win95, I must admit that it's not my
- preferred OS; NT takes that prize. Win 95 is quite solid,
- but not as solid as the NT as I manage to crash Win95
- every now and then while testing a buggy program. For
- example, if I make an error in certain DAO operations,
- the DAO library can hang Win95 completely. But compared
- to Win311, no contest there.
-
- I wholeheartedly recommend upgrading Win311 machines
- to Win95 for all my clients. Sometimes there are overriding
- reasons for sticking with 16-bit systems and I can appreciate
- that. However, those who can, IMHO should. Be aware,
- however, that an upgrade can, and often does, cost more
- than just the Win95 OS. You really need at least 8 mb
- of RAM and that 500 mb hard disk will fill up rapidly
- when you start installing modern software.
-
- >--
- --
- Pete Grant
- Kalevi, Inc.
- Object Oriented Software Development
-