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- From: schow@bqneh3.bnr.ca (Stanley T.H. Chow)
- Subject: Re: OS/2, VERY cool!
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.182112.22183@bcars64a.bnr.ca>
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- Organization: Bell Northern Research Ltd, Ottawa
- References: <165.2A8F4274@gisatl.fidonet.org> <1992Aug18.173743.12633@crpmks.uucp>
- Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 18:21:12 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug18.173743.12633@crpmks.uucp> billb@crpmks.UUCP (Bill Bochnik (Info Systems)) writes:
- >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.
-
- On the other hand, DOS does not let you do other things, so these is no other
- thing to steal cycles. How true.
-
- As a matter of fact, under OS/2, most "time-critical" games actually run
- quite well even with background jobs. It all depends on how you set up your
- system. (Face it, there isn't all that many programs more demanding than
- multitasking a couple of 9600baud transfers with other jobs.)
-
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