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In article <BsMHHB.3Ft@news.cso.uiuc.edu| tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Henderson) writes:

|I hate to see this started over hear, but at any rate.  Maybe to have a
|more stable system for one.  And so you can do multiple things at once.  I'll
|agree that running a single app is sometimes faster under windows.  However,
|if you have a number crunching program in the background and you run a word
|processor I don't think you would crunch numbers very fast.  True real number
|crunching should be done on a cray, but it's nice to see your flow solver
|running in the background while you write a paper.
|(My Euler flow code took 49 minutes using MS Fortran on a modest grid
|under DOS, it took a few seconds over 49 under a DOS box on OS/2 with
|nothing else going on.  With AMI PRO 2.0 up and working on a doc it added
|about 10-15 minutes to the run time I think.  I look forward to getting
|a true 32 bit compiler and let it run in an OS/2 session!)
|
|The number of apps are going to increase.  Why did you go to windows?  Most
|all of, if not all of the apps available for windows was availabe for DOS
|when windows first came out.  Windows only gave you a pretty desk top and
|the ability to switch between apps, but not run them together.

You're right about OS/2 multitasking better than Windows, but Windows
3.1 does multitask pretty well, actually. I _can_ run apps together. 
Granted, I don't run DOS apps much. 

I went to Windows for the same reason a lot of people do:

1) The desktop. Its nice compared to DOS.

2) The multitasking. Can't do that from DOS. Granted it isn't 
   perfect but it isn't all that bad.

3) Windows Apps. Can't run Excel from DOS.

|Windows is just right for a lot of people, especially if they spend all day
|looking at a word processor and don't mind waiting for a print out before
|they go on.

Not true... if you put that app in the background you can immediately
use another app even though the first app is sending stuff to the spooler.
And the time it takes to do that has greatly decreased with 3.1.

I don't have anything against OS/2, and will probably try it out once the 
Tseng driver situation has sorted itself out. I do not want to have to 1)
go to VGA resolutions or 2) get a Trident card which will crawl along at
half speed (added to the slight penalty you pay when running Windows apps
in seamless mode).





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