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Re: Micro$loth Windoze 95 Badges - how they should be
- Subject: Re: Micro$loth Windoze 95 Badges - how they should be
- From: kromkam@ecf.toronto.edu (KROMKAMP ANDY)
- Date: 1995/09/08
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc, comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc, aus.computers.ibm-pc, aus.computers.sun, aus.computers.os2, aus.computers.amiga, comp.sys.amiga.misc, comp.sys.apple2, comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc, comp.sys.intel, comp.sys.mac.programmer.misc, comp.sys.misc, comp.sys.newton.misc, comp.sys.next.misc, comp.sys.sgi.misc, comp.sys.sun.misc, comp.os.ms-windows.misc, comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup, comp.windows.misc, comp.os.ms-windows.win95.misc
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In article <42o4l7$9qt@news-2.csn.net>,
Jawaid Bazyar <bazyar@hypermall.com> wrote:
>Richard D. Wilson (wilsonr@gdls.com) wrote:
>
>: Uhh-humm... Windoze? Warp? Gimme a break!
>
>: Real programmers prefer real OS's (eg Linux / X).
>: BTW, why is 'doze95 called 32 bit when it still has DOS crawling around in its
>: guts? Actually, forget I asked. I don't want to know...
>
> That's because it doesn't still have "DOS crawling around in its guts".
>It can emulate DOS software much in the same way that Linux can.
>And there's a "DOS Mode" available that's _only_ DOS. Everything
>in Win '95 is 32-bit; my SCSI drivers, video drivers, etc etc everything.
>And the main reason I'm liking Win '95 more and more is that I can
>do a lot of the things I do under Linux- and not have to reboot
>to use a decent word processor (sorry, LaTeX doesn't count).
>
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You know nothing. 1)Win95 still has Dos 7 as it's underlying infrastructure.
It has some 32-bit disk access, but so does sin WfWG 3.11)
2) There is a WHOLE lot of 16-bit code on Win95. The whole damned USER
interface is 16-bit for christ sakes!!!
Even saying that, I think I like Win95. technically speaking, it's WAY
behind OS/2. But the interface is pretty nice, and little things (like
3rd parties actually using the RMB functionality, and screen res. changing
on the fly) are nice too. The main reason to support Win 95? It's a means
to an end to get to WinNT 2 years from now. and Win NT IS technically
superior to OS/2, and scaleable to boot :-)