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- Subject: Re: WARNING !!!!! MS WINDOWS 3.1 SmartDrive Problem
- Message-ID: <14AUG199207524250@zeus.tamu.edu>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 12:52:00 GMT
- Article-I.D.: zeus.14AUG199207524250
- References: <1992Aug13.040731.2286@cs.mcgill.ca> <exuptr.165.713735233@exu.ericsson.se> <1992Aug13.234004.4569@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>
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- In article <1992Aug13.234004.4569@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu>, chena@crs.cl.msu.edu (Antony Chen) writes...
- >
- >That's not the end of it. The new SmartDrive that comes with Windows 3.1
- >SUCKS! It gave me such a headache because I always got errors when I tried
- >to download files. The Write Cache would mess up the timings that my
- >comm program had. And it's not that my computer is too slow (I have a
- >486-50). Just turn the SmartDrv write cache off and save yerself a lot of
- >headaches. Believe me.
- >
-
- Perhaps its your Comm program - I use SmartDrive with ProComm Plus for
- Windows and have no problems at all.
-
- >Those stupid people at Microsoft. First, they come up with a runt OS called
- >MS-DOS and keep modifying it so they can trick the consumer into thinking
- >it is actually semi-efficient. (It's not efficient, you just gotta spend the
- >big bucks for a fast computer.)
-
- So get Unix or OS/2 ... then you need a fast computer that also has
- a _LOT_ of RAM and disk storage...
-
- > Then, they come out with the ugliest looking
- >flight simulator out there (who like those graphics anyways?).
-
- The graphics are about as good as EGA will give you. As for the panel
- layout, they were probably going for realism. (Ever been in a small
- airplane? The average small airplane instrument panel looks pretty
- primitive, even with the high-tech instruments and avionics)
-
- >Now, they
- >come out with Windows. Their biggest trimuph. Multi-tasking my butt.
- >AND WHAT?! Bill Gates is the richest executive out there. Life can be so
- >ironic.
-
- Yes -- we can start reading a posting about SmartDrive which turns into
- a flame about Microsoft, MS-Dos, MS Flight Sim, Windows, and Bill Gates.
- Why don't you just buy something else and leave the rest of us alone?
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