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- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
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- From: paul@serena.iaehv.nl (Paul Kolenbrander)
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- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 96 00:34:22 +0100
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- On Tue, 09 Apr 96, Karl Thomas typed the following line(s):
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- > Thanks for the education. Too bad you're wrong. Windows 3.11
- > cooperatively multitasks Windows apps and preemptively multitasks DOS apps.
-
- Ahem? Do you know what cooperative multitasking is? It means that the
- app in question decides how much CPU time it wants. And not the OS.
- Which means it's easy for an appp to hog the CPU. The MS PR dept.
- came up with a doozy indeed here.
-
- > 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.
-
- Hmm. DX4-100 with 16MB and Win'95 is darned slow. I installed FreeBSD
- 2.1 on that same computer and it flies. And is a lot more stable as
- well. Just try running Netscape and a telnet session. Then cat a
- really long file in the Telnet session. On win'95 you'll see the mouse
- pointer flicker and you can't do much. On FreeBSD there's no problem.
- Nor on the Amiga with AWeb and Napsaterm for that matter.
-
- BTW, I set a FollowUp-To: for comp.sys.amiga.advocacy as there is
- where this thread belongs. Not in half the c.s.a. hierarchy.
-
- Take care,
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