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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. 
 :)