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RE: Why a Windows 95 version?
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From: Michael H. Jackson
Sent: Friday, June 23, 1995 1:30
AM
To: Jesse Sightler
Subject: RE: Why a Windows 95 version?
At 05:02
AM 23/6/95 UT, you wrote:
>Actually, OS/2 is a better overall OS than Win95,
though. Multitasking
>support for Windows and DOS apps is better than
under Win95, and the GUI even
>has some advantages. Microsoft's decision
to use a 16-bit kernal in Win95 is
>a bit silly, if you ask me. :) The
system can really have some clumsy
>quirks if you compare it to a nice
stable OS like OS/2.
>
Each to his/her own... I gave warp a try. but had so
many problems that I
switched back to Win 3.11 to keep operational. haven't
had the time or disk
space since to give it another go. It is unfortunate
that support
compression was not available at release time. I don't doubt
that OS/2 is a
more stable and "better" OS, but I work with a lot of win3
apps that I am
not ready to discard (yet). I may still get the OS/2 box out
and try again.
I think I need a "test" machine to play with first though. I
wish I didn't
have to sleep so I could spend more time "tinkering"...
Cheers and thanks for the comments.
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But
this is why Win95 is _NOT_ as good as OS/2. Running Windows apps under OS/2
is EASY and they all run independantly (completely preemptive multitasking).
Under Windows 95 they all run under a dumb old 16-bit kernal and in fact your
old Windows apps will not preemptively multitask. Running Win3.11 apps under
Win95 yields little or no benfit.
OTOH, running Win 3.11 apps under OS/2
is GREAT!!! They all multitask together and the crash protection is actually
quite good.
||||| Jesse D. Sightler |||||
P.S. I'd love to hear some
details on why you had problems, so could you give me some more details in
EMail? Thanx.
P.S.S. Sorry about being so terribly off-topic. I'll make
sure to keep the rest of this in private EMail so y'all won't have to listen.
:)