Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...

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From: muzo
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 16:14

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esmith@oacis.com (Eric Smith) wrote:
>Why the hell didn't MS create a separate VM for every DOS and Windows 
>session?  They claim it was for compatibility reasons and to reduce memory 
>footprint.  HAH!  Then how can OS/2 run every DOS window as a separate VDM 
>and every Windows program the same way?  IBM's code is half the size of 
>Win95's!  

nope, wrong OS2 runs in 512K memory which is 1/8 of the win95's requirement.
check your numbers again. If you leave out tcp/ip and wps, it even runs on my
1984 PC XT with 256K.

>And as for memory footprint, remember that MS has revised their 
>"minimum" configuration for Win95 to increase the amount of memory required. 
>Big surprise there.

right win95 requires at least 32M to multitask 2 programs.

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Subject: Re: Ask yourself these before you choosing a 32bit OS...
Date: Wed, 23 Aug 1995 16:14:36 GMT
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