Re: OS/2

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From: Anahata
Date: Sun, 26 Oct 1997 00:00

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In article <34538101.5BF1@home.org> me@home.org "rr" writes:

> All Runs Smoothly and I can Even Format a Floppy at the same time :D ha,
> ha ... (Inside Joke - Can't figure out why OS2'rs always bring this one
> up, yes it demonstrates the multitasking and multithreading

It was the favourite simple and spectacular example of how much better OS/2
was than WIN 3.x at multitasking DOS-based applications. Under WIN3.x all
other tasks froze solid while the disk was being formatted; under OS/2
formatting a disk in the background had no perceptible effect on running
applications.

I don't know how Win95 performs in this respect.

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From: Anahata <Anahata@freereed.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: OS/2
Date: 1997/10/26
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