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Article #1338Re: OS/2, VERY cool!
From: Stanley T.H. Chow
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 18:21
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 18:21
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In article <1992Aug18.173743.12633@crpmks.uucp> billb@crpmks.UUCP (Bill Bochnik (Info Systems)) writes: >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. On the other hand, DOS does not let you do other things, so these is no other thing to steal cycles. How true. As a matter of fact, under OS/2, most "time-critical" games actually run quite well even with background jobs. It all depends on how you set up your system. (Face it, there isn't all that many programs more demanding than multitasking a couple of 9600baud transfers with other jobs.) -- Stanley Chow InterNet: schow@BNR.CA Bell Northern Research UUCP: ..!uunet!bnrgate!bqneh3!schow (613) 763-2831 Me? Represent other people? Don't make them laugh so hard.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!utcsri!torn!cunews!nrcnet0!bnrgate!bmerh85!bcars64a!bqneh3!schow From: schow@bqneh3.bnr.ca (Stanley T.H. Chow) Subject: Re: OS/2, VERY cool! Message-ID: <1992Aug19.182112.22183@bcars64a.bnr.ca> Sender: news@bcars64a.bnr.ca (Usenet News) Organization: Bell Northern Research Ltd, Ottawa References: <165.2A8F4274@gisatl.fidonet.org> <1992Aug18.173743.12633@crpmks.uucp> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 18:21:12 GMT Lines: 18