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- From: bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown)
- Subject: Re: Couldn't stick it out...
- Message-ID: <1992Jul28.161224.12540@infonode.ingr.com>
- Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
- References: <l75b16INN8o7@spock.usc.edu> <1992Jul27.103456.1@kean.ucs.mun.ca> <mg.712256058@elan> <1992Jul27.212525.26274@infonode.ingr.com> <1992Jul28.115811.17855@iplmail.orl.mmc.com>
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 16:12:24 GMT
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- billr@iplmail.orl.mmc.com (Bill Richmond) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Jul27.212525.26274@infonode.ingr.com>, bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown) writes:
- >|> Though I agree the multitasking in windows is probably not as good as
- >|> it is in OS/2 2.0, I have done some amazing things with it, such
- >|> as run a 500 frame MPEG movie at 15 frames/sec in a 320x240 window while
- >|> downloading at 2400 bps. When I tried this while downloading at
- >|> 10,200 bps, the frame rate dropped to about 10 frames/sec, but my
- >|> download continued without a hiccup. I think the slowdown a was
- >|> due to my 386/33 being overwhelmed. A 486/33 probably could have
- >|> kept the frame rate a 15.
-
- > Well, while d/ling, a friend who uses an USRobotics 14.4 HST gets
- >barely more than 1/2 the transfer rate (ie 900-1000cps vs 1700cps) when
- >in Windows 3.1 as opposed to not in Windows. There is no question that
-
- I have a USR Dual 14.4K HST and have not noticed any loss of d/l speed
- while in Windows. I haven't had a real 14.4K HST mode connecton in a while,
- but I remember getting 1500+ cps in this mode. Now, I tend to connect to
- a 9600/V.32/MNP5 host most of the time and get around 1250 cps.
-
- >OS/2 multitasks better. I am about to go back to Windows due to the way
- >OS/2 runs things. For instance, if I d/l something from a bbs & it doesn't
- >immediately work, I must wonder: does it work at all? Should I simply sit
- >here for 3.2 hours tweaking OS/2 to try to get it to run? This has happened
- >to me too often. It seems that IBM didn't think a few things out very well.
- >Why does this product teach you to use a mouse & at the same time make you
- >change the DPMI settings? It is a worthy product but a few things need to change
- >before it even has a shot at competing w/Windows...It saddens me to say this for
- >Windows is not what it should be, but it is the truth...
-
- I agree, OS/2 2.0 is definitely a better design than Windows 3.1.
- But if I, a person who understands what full memory protection and pre-
- emptive multitasking are, and knows the value of a 32-bit flat address
- space, still get so fed up with twiddling around with all the settings
- for the dos boxes trying to get my old stuff to work that I chuck the
- whole thing, then how is IBM going to pursuade the joe average users
- of the world to switch to it? I think OS/2 is destined to become
- another tube of Blue Glue.
-
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- Bailey Brown "Above all else, confusion reigns."
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