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- Subject: Re: I will NEVER buy Windows 95 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-(
- Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 21:58:38 GMT
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- On Sun, 14 Jan 1996 18:39:15 GMT, highlndr@fastlane.net (Highlander)
- wrote:
-
- >mattias.inghe@mailbox.swipnet.se (MING) wrote:
- >
- >>In article <30fa02e4.433083@nntp.ix.netcom.com>, toadeatr@ix.netcom.com
- >>says...
- >
- >>>I read a message from someone in alt.games who had the DOS & Windoze95
- >>>version of Mechwarrior2. Guess what? The DOS version ran at a decent
- >>>rate, even at 640x480, while the Windoze version was slow as hell.
- >>>Can someone explain why this new technologically advanced "OS" runs
- >>>worse than DOS?
- >
- >>Surprised? Not me. The more tech-advanced OS, the more memory and system
- >>resources occupied, and the more barriaers and filters that makes
- >>communication with hardware slow. I have both DOS and Win95 installed,
- >>and can startup with either one. (The only reason I bought the shit was
- >>that I needed CorelDRAW! 6, and it have really complicated things a lot.)
- >
- >>[MING]
- >
- >It is the same way with DOOM, the DOS version runs extremely fast at maximum
- >screen size and resolution with only 4Megs and a 486DX4-100 processor, however
- >on Win '95 the same version of DOOM but for Win '95 runs at half the speed with
- >16Megs RAM Pentium-120 processor and set with maximum priority with no other
- >programs running.
-
- That's BS.
-
- Chris
-