Re: Are you a Switch-It! owner?

[johnlb@Primenet.Com (John Bowling)]

In article <4badcv$1n4@blackice.winternet.com>,
Ian Schmidt <irsman@subzero.winternet.com> wrote:
>In article <4baags$7rj@nntp3.news.primenet.com>,
>John Bowling <johnlb@Primenet.Com> wrote:
>
>>version of it or even in Windows 95.  Is 640 K of RAM enough?  Yes, they 
>>have lots more, but all software must use the first 640K and page ther 
>>rest in and out.  That crap should have been fixed 10 years ago!
>
>Win95, NT, and (best of all) UNIX all fix this for properly written software.
>I can compile my handy utils that I use at work as Win32 EXEs instead of
>DOS with a compiler switch (thank you Watcom!) and whammo, no 640k limit.

But you have to recompile for one or the other.  Suppose you were a customer
without the source code or the compiler?  How easy is it then?

>
>>Also, why does Windows 95 take some 100 Meg of HD to operate?  When it 
>>does little more than GS/OS (in 2 Meg).
>
>Uhh, does GS/OS have built-in multimedia with codecs?  How about automagic

No codecs, what ever they are, but multimedia IS built in!  Perhaps not as
fancy, but it's there, and at least two years before windows had it!

>TCP/IP?  I'm sorry, I like the GS a lot, but it doesn't help it to falsely
>bash other machines.  Doing so simply stoops to CF's own level.  We're 

Pointing out faults is bashing?

>better than that.
>
>(Ok, Henrik, bring in FlameStation now :)

I consider this an interesting discussion from multiple view points, and 
there is no flaming involved.  Or bashing!

>
>--
>Ian Schmidt - irsman@winternet.com - http://www.winternet.com/~irsman/
>    "Where would I be without IBM?" - P. Robb, Information Society
     "Happy with a GS!"

There is another strange thing about Internet.  I saw a response to Ian's 
post three days before I saw his post!  Primenet's mail server has been
crappy lately (bad disks, etc.) but it almost seems to be handling mail 
in a reverse time manner.

John

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