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- From: morton@qucdntri.ee.queensu.ca
- Subject: Re: OS2 Good news and Bad news (OS2 & a little windows too)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.123746.1@qucdntri.ee.queensu.ca>
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- Organization: Queen's University EE Department
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- Distribution: comp.os.os2.advocacy
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 17:37:46 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul22.164115.1@qucdntri.ee.queensu.ca>, morton@qucdntri.ee.queensu.ca writes:
- >
- > Yep, I think so! I've been a staunch DOS user for many-a-year, but now that
- > I'm in Electrical/Computer Engineering, I'm more educated, and although
- > OS2/2 is pretty nifty, I want to know why wysiwyg applications still
- > crawl on my 80386 when they were pretty fast on the 68000's. Within the
- > next couple of months, I'm going to do some serious looking into
- > whatever Mac it is based on the 68030 and 68040.
-
- Somebody e-mailed me about this one but I lost their address so I'll reply here.
-
- Maybe I'm confusing a software problem with a hardware problem. I'm new to OS2
- so I've only ever used DOS/Win apps in OS2. When I see WPfW take just for ever scrolling,
- in OS2 just like it did in Windows, I blame it on the hardware. I guess this could be
- just poor programming for a poor operating system, and maybe WP for OS2 is good and fast.
-
- Could anybody comment on this? (ie. Big Windows apps are deadly slow.
- How about actual OS2 apps? Is it a fundamental problem win Intel based machines,
- or is DOS just a fundamentally poor OS.)
-
- Stephen Queen's Electrical Engineering
-