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- Path: sparky!uunet!usc!rpi!think.com!linus!philabs!crpmks!billb
- From: billb@crpmks.uucp (Bill Bochnik (Info Systems))
- Subject: Re: OS/2, VERY cool!
- Reply-To: billb@crpmks.UUCP (Bill Bochnik (Info Systems))
- Organization: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 17:37:43 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.173743.12633@crpmks.uucp>
- References: <165.2A8F4274@gisatl.fidonet.org>
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- In article <165.2A8F4274@gisatl.fidonet.org> june@f308.n133.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Ed June) writes:
- >On <Aug 14 20:44>, Mike McCole of 1:133/411 wrote to All:
- >
- > MM> From: mikem@travis.csd.harris.com (Mike McCole)
- > MM> Date: 11 Aug 92 01:55:15 GMT
- > MM> Organization: Harris Computer Systems Division, Fort Lauderdale, FL
- > MM> Message-ID: <9167@travis.csd.harris.com>
- > MM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- >
- > MM> All good games run under dos, OS/2 will cause you untold
- > MM> grief trying to run games, it can be done but you have to tweak
- > MM> for every little wierdness your games come up with.
- >
- >Funny, as high speed connections to the bbs are doin' they're thing RELIABLY, I can play, at the same time, any dos game I care to.
- >
- >I love it!
- >Oh, this on a 'low life' 20mHz '386 w/ 8mb memory...
- >
- >
- >
- >--
- >Ed June
- >
- >Fidonet: 1:133/308, Atlanta's OS/2 Users Group BBS, 404-471-1549
- >Internet: ed_june@over.mind.org
- >Internet: june@gisatl.fidonet.org
- >UUCP: ...!emory!uumind!overmind!ed_june
- >UUCP : ...!gatech!warlord!gisatl!308!june
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- If you're playing timer specific games, like Shooting Gallery, uner OS/2 you
- will suffer from periodic cpu slowdowns ans spurts as the system does other
- things, robbing the DOS session of cycles.
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