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- From: pchienjr@uclink.berkeley.edu (Peter C Chien Jr)
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- Subject: Re: I will NEVER buy Windows 95 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-(
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- Date: 27 Jan 1996 03:56:18 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
- Message-ID: <4ec7p2$79c@agate.berkeley.edu>
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- John V. Baboval (Jbaboval@iconn.net) wrote:
- : attica@ny.com wrote:
- : >
- : > vfiscus@mcn.net (Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL) wrote:
- : >
- : > >I don't need to buy Windows 95 to watch my DISK
- : > >space disappear or to see my programs run slower.
- : >
- : > >I can hit my computer with a hammer for free, and watch it HAPPEN!!
- : >
- : > In a way I agree with you, my hd has never went this crazy running win 3.1 before. I mean the damn accessing light
- : > is on 85 percent of the time. However I feel that the multitasking is true, and I really like the plug and play feature.
- : > I guess w95 is not for your average "Joe" running a 386 dx 40 with only a 150 meg hd. I am slowly contemplating
- : > downgrading to 3.1, if this hd goes any crazier. Save your money pal, and stick with 3.1, or 0s/2 for that fact.
- : >
-
- : Machine:
- : Pentium 75/ 8mb RAM
-
- : Program:\
-
- : Borland Trubo C++ 4.51
-
- : Times: (150,000 lines of code)
-
- : Windows 3.11: 2.5 Hrs
-
- : OS/2 Warp/Connect: 2.7 Hrs
-
- : Windows 95: 1.5 Hrs...
-
- : Too big of a difference for me to understand whay all you people think
- : it's slow...
-
- --
- So you were using a Borland Turbo C++ 4.51 *for OS/2*?
- Maybe if you used an OS/2 version, it'd be pretty fast.
- Also, OS/2 Warp for Windows is slower than
- OS/2 Warp with Win-OS/2 built in when running Windows apps.
- (Win-OS/2 was reverse engineered and optimized -- with
- permission of course.)
-