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- From: Michael H. Jackson
- Sent: Friday, June 23, 1995 1:30
- AM
- To: Jesse Sightler
- Subject: RE: Why a Windows 95 version?
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- At 05:02
- AM 23/6/95 UT, you wrote:
- >Actually, OS/2 is a better overall OS than Win95,
- though. Multitasking
- >support for Windows and DOS apps is better than
- under Win95, and the GUI even
- >has some advantages. Microsoft's decision
- to use a 16-bit kernal in Win95 is
- >a bit silly, if you ask me. :) The
- system can really have some clumsy
- >quirks if you compare it to a nice
- stable OS like OS/2.
- >
- Each to his/her own... I gave warp a try. but had so
- many problems that I
- switched back to Win 3.11 to keep operational. haven't
- had the time or disk
- space since to give it another go. It is unfortunate
- that support
- compression was not available at release time. I don't doubt
- that OS/2 is a
- more stable and "better" OS, but I work with a lot of win3
- apps that I am
- not ready to discard (yet). I may still get the OS/2 box out
- and try again.
- I think I need a "test" machine to play with first though. I
- wish I didn't
- have to sleep so I could spend more time "tinkering"...
-
-
- Cheers and thanks for the comments.
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- Mike
- Jackson, Science Teacher and Naturalist
- Temporary address: Box 2, Oyama, BC,
- VOH 1W0. Tel: 604-548-3522
- Permanent address: 3118 Stevenson, Victoria, BC,
- Canada, V8X 1C5
- http://www.islandnet.com/~mjackson/homepage.html
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-
- But
- this is why Win95 is _NOT_ as good as OS/2. Running Windows apps under OS/2
- is EASY and they all run independantly (completely preemptive multitasking).
- Under Windows 95 they all run under a dumb old 16-bit kernal and in fact your
- old Windows apps will not preemptively multitask. Running Win3.11 apps under
- Win95 yields little or no benfit.
-
- OTOH, running Win 3.11 apps under OS/2
- is GREAT!!! They all multitask together and the crash protection is actually
- quite good.
-
- ||||| Jesse D. Sightler |||||
-
- P.S. I'd love to hear some
- details on why you had problems, so could you give me some more details in
- EMail? Thanx.
-
- P.S.S. Sorry about being so terribly off-topic. I'll make
- sure to keep the rest of this in private EMail so y'all won't have to listen.
- :)
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