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> Of course it isn't, once you start putting 16-bit crap on it.  The point
> is that you don't have to.  Win95 is by no means a technology marvel,
> but correctly used provides better functionality than MacOS (the
> non-vapour flavour :-)


Yesterday, I had to put a 7 mb file on floppy's for transport. It was a 
PowerPoint presentation converted from the Macintosh. 

At first I thought using MSBACKUP to spread the file across multiple 
floppies would be a sane idea since MSBACKUP seems a widespread program. 
Then I noticed that PowerPoint had an option to do just this.

It took something around 20 minutes for the option to complete it's job. 
Then, when I tested it, Win95 crashed. I reformatted the floppies, 
adjusted the presentation, and tried again. Win95 crashed again. What is 
worse is that I get a blue screen with ugly not-quite-centered chars 
demanding that I put in disk "NO_NAME" with serial "xxxx xxxx". If I 
refuse to do so, Win95 crashes.

Finally I gave up and used MSBACKUP after all. It did the job in 
somewhere around 10 minutes, including testing.

In my experience, 45 minutes spent on doing nothing at all is a hell of 
a lot less productive than spending 10 minutes on something that works. 

In my experience, DOS is more productive an OS than Win95.



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