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- > >OS/2 2.0 was a crock of shit. However, OS/2 2.1 and later are pretty
- > >good. And they are *not* less powerful than Win95. As far as 32bit
- > >progs go, about the same. However, OS/2 will do 16-bit Windows
- > >much better than Win95, for the following reasons:
- > >
- > >1) OS/2 allows multiple Windows 16 apps in virtual machines, allowing
- > > pre-emptive multitasking of Win16 apps, and protecting them from
- > > each other. Win95 does not have this, although NT does.
- >
- > Actualy, NT does *not* do that either. It is actualy nessecary to work
- > 100% correctly that the Win16 applications run in the same VM.
-
- Actually, Dan, NT *does* do this, and has for more than a year. Hit
- alt-enter and observe: "Run in seperate memory space." They're pre-empted,
- they're seperate, and unlike OS/2 and Windows 3.1, they have virtually
- no limit on resources.
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- > >3) Win95 does not pre-emptively multitask as soon as you run any
- > > Win16 apps in it. OS/2 does. For most people this makes
- > > precious little difference, of course.
- > >
- >
- > Don't forget that OS/2 is not Win16 native. That means it can run a
- > windows subsystem for each application, and get pre-emp. multitasking!
- > Win95 uses one windowing system that must act like the Win16 system to
- > the Window 16 applications!
-
- So what? The topic under discussion was a Win95 version of Executor,
- not Win32. Since even IBM has joined the Win32 bandwagon, it would
- be silly to even consider a Win16 version.
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