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echo: os2prog
to: Clemens Anhuth
from: Stephen Lindholm
date: 1995-05-19 20:25:54
subject: Re: OS/2 8-16 megs

On May 16 19:49 95, Clemens Anhuth of 2:240/5033.11 wrote:

CA> if anyone ever told you os/2 would be a runner compared to dos/windows and  
CA> maybe additionaly that dos/windows apps run faster than under plain dos/ 
CA> windows he/she simply lied to you, period.

Bzt. Disk access speed for DOS applications is vastly superior, and OS/2
handles memory MUCH better in DOS sessions.

It is not a better Windows than Windows, but it is a better DOS than DOS by
almost all accounts.
@EOT:

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