19 Apr
2002
19 Apr
'02
12:35 p.m.
And thusly SUPRDAVE(a)aol.com spake:
When OS/2 (V3?) came out, a friend and I demoed it at a user group meeting.
We put it beside whatever was the latest from M$. Of course OS/2 was *better*
at everything... <sigh>
That (formatting a floppy disk) was a big thing. The other big thing was
playing multiple DOS games in console windows with almost *no* slowdown.
Cheers,
Bryan
It's a Windows things... For some reason they just can't multitask
properly while doing a floppy disk format. Maybe they are still using DOS
type format routines.
With OS/2, you can also do a full format of a floppy and do anything else
with
no slowdown.
That was a big bragging point for us OS/2 users.