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- dan_g@ix.netcom.com (Dan Guisinger) writes:
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- > Win95 is a cutting edge platform. In fact, it is probibly more powerful,
- > and is more (much much more) support than winpy old OS/2. I had OS/2 2.00
- > and am never going back
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- Beyond this reply I will not continue any farther, but you're welcome to
- continue this via e-mail or on comp.os.os2.advocacy if you think you'll be
- able to keep up. ;-) (Not meant unkindly, BTW <g>)
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- FWIW, judging OS/2 Warp by using OS/2 v2.00 is roughly analogous to judging
- Windows for Workgroups v3.11 by using Windows 3.0. The later versions have
- a similar overall design, but multiple versions and years of development
- have produced significant refinements in both cases (as you'd know if you
- were familiar with either one).
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- In any case, I disagree with you, both as a business and "power home user"
- who likes playing with OS toys on my free time, and as a former student of
- operating systems architecture and design. Windows 95 certainly has a number
- of areas where it excels, mostly in comfiguration management and in aspects
- of its user interface, but that does *not* extend to its core archicture,
- which (in my mind) is compromising so much in the name of compatibility with
- legacy applications that it ends up severely compromising system security.
- Allowing user code (VxDs, etc.) to run at Ring 0 is simply not acceptable,
- and IMhO that decision taints the product in a significant manner.
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- Windows/NT is a good 32-bit OS, if a bit resource intensive for most users.
- Windows 95 is a compromise which will work for most, but it will not handle
- things as well under load as a truly protected 32-bit OS will, and in this
- users opinion that severely limits its usefulness in the contexts I tend to
- operate as a power user.
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- Further replies in this mailing list will be ignored. My apologies to ARDI
- for this reply, but I felt a rebuttal was necessary.
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- -Rich Steiner (rsteiner@skypoint.com, please) Viva la GEOS! :-)
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