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- From: finnh@ak.planet.gen.nz (Finn Higgins)
- Subject: Re: Why are europeans dumb enough to buy amigas?
- Message-ID: <1051.6678T619T2819@ak.planet.gen.nz>
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- Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1996 04:35:49 GMT
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- >On Tue, 09 Apr 1996 21:20:54 -0500, Lars Nelson <lars@infohwy.com>
- >wrote:
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- >>Martin Thomas wrote:
- >>
- >>> I'm afraid you're wrong about that, Win 3.x pre-emptively multitasks DOS
- >>> sessions, unlike Win apps which multitask co-operatively. You can set the
- >>> background (and foreground) priority of each DOS session individually from
- >>> the control panel, using the PIF editor.
- >>
- >> Yes, and if I wave my hands really fast in front of my face, I have
- >>4 hands. And, when the wheels on a car go really fast, they actually start
- >>turning backwards.
- >>
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- >Some people can't believe the truth.
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- Like you, for one. you have said these things in recent messages:
- "If you think you can just copy a driver to DEVS:, you are dreaming", you
- can just copy a driver and have a monitor installed, david. Or use the
- installer, which is even easier, and takes about 10 minutes less than a
- Win95 "Search for new hardware".
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- The point he was making is that the PC _appears_ to do quite a few thing,
- but actually does very little well.
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- Finn Higgins
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