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Win3 multitasks? Re:DreamOS=Linux

#1975
From: Jani Miettinen
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 1995 04:55
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Jerry Shekhel (jjs@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: In <41mhp4$4h6@news1.deltanet.com> xenon@deltanet.com () writes: 

: >The truth is that Windows is not truly a multitasking
: >environment and never will be. Now, presumably, you have 95. Try
: >running two concurrent FTP sessions, each to a different host.

: excellent.  As far as having two FTP sessions to different hosts going
: on at the same time, this is trivial, and I used to do this all the
: time under Windows 3.1.  *You* obviously have never tried it.

Well, I have tried (and used it many times)...but Win3 with FTP sessions
sucks real badly. "Multitasking"? Well it works, but not as well as in
Amiga, Unix, NT...

Followups to Amiga-advocacy only.
--
	Jani Miettinen  
	t93074@mail.vitech.fi
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From: t93074@vitech.fi (Jani Miettinen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.powerpc,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.sys.mac.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.intel,alt.2600
Subject: Win3 multitasks? Re:DreamOS=Linux
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Date: 5 Sep 1995 04:55:40 GMT
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