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- From: kathomas@nyx.cs.du.edu (Karl Thomas)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.games,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Date: 9 Apr 1996 19:28:27 -0600
- Organization: University of Denver, Math/CS Dept.
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- finnh@ak.planet.gen.nz (Finn Higgins) writes:
-
- >>judas@tomtec.abg.sub.org (Th.Huber) wrote:
-
- >>->Multitask ???? Win3.11 is unable to multitask,
-
- >>If this is true, then why can I multitask MS-DOS programs in WfWG 3.11?
-
- >You can't, you are task-switching. There is a difference, in that when you
- >multitask, the OS works out which apps should have how much processor time,
- >and with task-switching, it only gives a diffent one all the power, the one
- >you have selected at the time. This gives the illusion of multitasking, but
- >it isn't true multitasking.
-
- Thanks for the education. Too bad you're wrong. Windows 3.11
- cooperatively multitasks Windows apps and preemptively multitasks DOS apps.
-
-
- >>->and Win95 is so damned slow, you end up re-installing Win3.11.
-
- Windows 95 is just as fast as Windows 3.11 if not a little faster with 8
- Megs of Ram. Win95 runs very well on my dx/2-66 DOS card. It would run
- better on the average dx/2-66 clone though since most of them would come
- with beter graphics hardware than the DOS card has on it.
-
-
- >>I didn't. Win95 is much better than 3.11 in every regard. Most people who
- >>go back to 3.11 do that only because Win95 interface is so different to
- >>what they were used to (Program Manager and File Manager).
-
- >My dad has given up on Win95, and has decided to learn DOS instead. He says
- >that DOS is far preferable to that abomination, and I tend to aggree with
- >him (we have a Win95 P100, and it still crawls).
-
- You must be joking. How much Ram does it have 1 Meg?
-
- >>Win95 doesn't need a faster CPU than Win3.11, but it needs somewhat
- >>more memory.
-
- >But it still crawls, even with a P100 with 16meg of RAM and a 1 GIG HDD.
-
-
- I guess actually asking you to post the programs you were using and
- comparing them to similar Amiga programs would be too much trouble. It's
- amazing how Amiga users can call the typical Pentium based PC with PCI
- graphics cards slow and then settle for the pathetic speed of the typical
- Amiga.
-