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In article <165.2A8F4274@gisatl.fidonet.org> june@f308.n133.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Ed June) writes:
>On <Aug 14 20:44>, Mike McCole of 1:133/411 wrote to All:
>
> MM> From: mikem@travis.csd.harris.com (Mike McCole)
> MM> Date: 11 Aug 92 01:55:15 GMT
> MM> Organization: Harris Computer Systems Division, Fort Lauderdale, FL
> MM> Message-ID: <9167@travis.csd.harris.com>
> MM> Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
>
> MM> All good games run under dos, OS/2 will cause you untold
> MM> grief trying to run games, it can be done but you have to tweak
> MM> for every little wierdness your games come up with.
>
>Funny, as high speed connections to the bbs are doin' they're thing RELIABLY, I can play, at the same time, any dos game I care to.
>
>I love it!
>Oh, this on a 'low life' 20mHz '386 w/ 8mb memory...
>
>
>
>--
>Ed June
>
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If you're playing timer specific games, like Shooting Gallery, uner OS/2 you 
will suffer from periodic cpu slowdowns ans spurts as the system does other 
things, robbing the DOS session of cycles.



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