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In article <1992Aug9.014738.90@actrix.gen.nz| Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
|In article <BsMHHB.3Ft@news.cso.uiuc.edu| tamu@uxh.cso.uiuc.edu (Todd Henderson) writes:
|| nsus_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Nick Susch) writes:
|| 
|| |In <1992Aug7.115338.3610@actrix.gen.nz| Steve.Withers@bbs.actrix.gen.nz writes:
|| 
|| |Ah, I bought OS/2 and used it for about 2 weeks. It runs the top 100 DOS and
|| |Windows program, and thats about it. And it runs them VERY SLOWLY if they
|| |have any graphics at all in them. Why go to OS/2 to run DOS and Windows
|| |programs? Why not just run them under DOS and Windows, where they were made
|| |to run, and run a lot faster? OS/2 doesn't give you access to any more
|| |programs; of the few programs that run under OS/2, they are all available
|| |for DOS and Windows.
|
|From the way this is set up, you might think I wrote the above. I didn't (I
|think Iskandar Tahb did). As far os OS/2 running the top 100 DOS and Windows
|apps is concerned - that is total crap. Lie would be a better word, but I
|don't think Iskandar is being deliberatley misleading.

Ummm..no.. I didn't write this. If you follow the attributions care-
fully you'll note that the attrib line with two || belongs to  
"nsus_ss@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Nick Susch)" and the attribution 
is correct.

|As for the video card question that started this thread, OS/2 will do
|640x480x16 with almost any card in existence. If you want SVGA, the range
|narrows to only about a dozen of the most popular cards and their clones.

But who wants to do 640x480x16? Thats boring! 

The Trident 8900 is a very poor SVGA card. It runs about half the speed
of a Tseng ET4000. I would _not_ want to run my Windows apps at half 
speed added to the slight penalty you pay for running seamless Windows.
If there is one thing Windows 3.1 has gotten me used to is fast video
handling. I don't care how much faster multitasking is, if I have to 
use a Trident to get it I'll wait a few months until good seamless 
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