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- From: iam@stiatl.salestech.com (Ian Mercado)
- Subject: Why I love OS/2. (Kids, try this at home!)
- Message-ID: <1992Sep04.161711.22779@stiatl.salestech.com>
- Organization: Sales Technologies, Inc.
- Date: Fri, 04 Sep 1992 16:17:11 GMT
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- Last night, I had the need to DISKCOPY 15 1.44 meg floppies. Normally a
- time consuming and tedious process. Not this time. Just fired up an
- OS/2 window and let 'er rip. Only one pass per disk was necessary...none
- of this 3+ passes garbage because of that ol' 640K memory barrier that we
- all knew and loved.
-
- An hour and a half later, it was all done. Oh, that and about 7 more
- completed missions of Wing Commander II (in which there was no noticeable
- degradation in performance). It's times like that that you really appreciate
- all the things that OS/2 DOES do for you, instead of worrying about the things
- that it doesn't.
-
- I defy you to do that in Windows 3.1.
-
- Ian
-
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- "But it was too slow, so I re-wired it..." | virus. Copy me and die!
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