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ckno01@cs.auckland.ac.nz (Craig Knox) wrote:


>  Win95 doesn't multitask very good.  Try this, play a wav or a mod then
>insert a cd-rom, or access you A: drive, it halts the system for a second
>or so. 

Yes, when I was playing an AVI file at 320*200 with sound, and I first
accessed the floppy, it paused for a second.  However, it seemed to
only do that once- subsequent copies of files from the floppy to the
desktop did not hinder the frame rate or sound at all when playing an
AVI file, this is on a DX2-66 with 8 megs.  

No doubt, it's probably not as smooth as OS/2 or NT.  But it certainly
can multitask.  I've played action games, with hundreds of sprites
scrolling smoothly while copying something to disk with a barely
perceptible slowdown.  Strangely, doing so from a DOS prompt makes it
even smoother than 95's desktop (likely due to the little graphic
embellisments 95 uses).  Regardless, 95 can multitask, and do a decent
job of it.  As more pure 32-bit apps start showing, it will just get
better.

>  Question is, is Win95 very different than Win3.1x?

Night and day.