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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: Windows == OS
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- References: <1992Jul27.111210.2143@actrix.gen.nz> <1992Aug03.023244.19013@microsoft.com> <1992Aug03.091642.163545@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 1992 17:30:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug03.091642.163545@zeus.calpoly.edu> jemenake@zeus.calpoly.edu (Joe Emenaker) writes:
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- >But still you can't deny that Windows is a slave to DOS' limitations. If
- >you don't believe me, just try formatting a floppy with the file-manager.
- >The whole system freezes until DOS kindly hands the processor back to
- >Windows. Contrast that with, ooooh... say... OS/2. I can format a disk in
- >drive A: AND in drive B: *SIMULTANEOUSLY* without any noticable loss of
- >performance in my foreground-app.
-
- This was true with 3.0, but not 3.1. 3.1 will allow you to format
- diskettes while doing something else.
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- Even with 3.0 I could format diskettes preemptively in a DOS window..
- never did try two simultaneously though.
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- >The thing that haunts me about DOS/Windows, is that Windows will crash if
- >DOS crashes. And DOS crashes if one of your (often public-domain) device
- >drivers crashes. The mental image this conjures up for me is that of an
- >elephant standing on marbles; as long as you don't frighten it, the whole
- >thing will avoid falling flat on it's face. This hierarchy (that being one
- >in which each level of the OS is depending on a less robust, less stable
- >one which runs underneath it) is unnerving to say the least.
-
- I know its unfashionable to say so but Windows 3.1 is incredibly
- robust. On a machine that doesn't have hardware problems I've had
- it going nonstop for weeks at a time. DOS isn't all that crash-
- prone either, it was usually apps that caused crashes. I've rarely
- had a machine crash at the C:\> prompt.
-
- >Granted, Windows does go around MS-DOS to do many things (as it very well
- >should), but it is still dependent upon DOS for disk-I/O and for EMS/XMS
- >memory management.
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- Yes for disk I/O, no for XMS.
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