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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: Windows == OS
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.153557.10652@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <1992Jul27.111210.2143@actrix.gen.nz> <1992Aug03.023244.19013@microsoft.com> <1992Aug03.091642.163545@zeus.calpoly.edu> <Bt51yD.Fv3@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 15:35:57 GMT
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- In <Bt51yD.Fv3@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Aug03.091642.163545@zeus.calpoly.edu> jemenake@zeus.calpoly.edu (Joe Emenaker) writes:
-
- >>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.
-
- I'll have to check, but I don't believe that this is true. The only
- way to format a diskette and do something else at the same time that
- I've ever gotten to work is:
-
- >Even with 3.0 I could format diskettes preemptively in a DOS window..
- >never did try two simultaneously though.
-
- >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.
-
- I've never found Windows to be as horribly crash-prone as some people
- describe it to be. I do, however, have periodic problems with
- 'vanishing resources'. They slowly bleed away to zero, and getting
- them back requires getting out of Windows and going back in.
-
- >>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.
-
- >Yes for disk I/O, no for XMS.
-
- The only thing Windows uses DOS for is file management.
-
-
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- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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