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- From: Gary.Woodman@anu.edu.au (Gary Woodman)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: WordPerfect 5.2 for OS/2 - Press Release!
- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 00:10:19 GMT
- Organization: Computer Services Centre, Australian National University
- Lines: 30
- Message-ID: <Gary.Woodman.942.728093419@anu.edu.au>
- References: <1993Jan21.103608.25237@actrix.gen.nz> <1jnbd9INN9ti@controversy.math.lsa.umich.edu> <1993Jan24.123309.11315@actrix.gen.nz>
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- In article <1993Jan24.123309.11315@actrix.gen.nz> Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
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- >In article <1jnbd9INN9ti@controversy.math.lsa.umich.edu>
- >spexet@math.lsa.umich.edu (D. Robert Spexet II) writes:
- >>
- >> Now, this may really sound like a dumb question, but why would anyone want
- >> to buy version 5.2 of WordPerfect, when they can just buy the latest Windows
- >> version and run that instead?
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- >Because the Windows version still has to run on top of a virtual DOS...and the
- >virtual DOS is the thing that pushes your PULSE graph to the top of the scale.
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- *Ahem* ... there must be more to it than this, I have a couple of DOS apps
- which don't peak Pulse. I'd understood this behaviour was due to the DOS
- apps being programmed with keyboard polls, quite common and acceptable in
- DOS but causing confusion at least in OS/2.
-
- Followups to - err, c.o.o.p?
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- >System resources are used much more efficiently by OS/2 apps. Performance
- >would be an issue in making the decission to buy WP5.2 for OS/2.
-
- No argument there...
-
- >Plus....if no one buys it.....they won't write any more software for OS/2.
-
- :-(
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