Mail Archives: djgpp/2000/02/17/02:44:31
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Chris Jones wrote:
>
> On my Pentium-233 it does take a long time to start up, but once running, it
> can multitask much more smoothly than Win9x - I can play an mp3 and work at
Not mutiltasking it is more likely task switching. For ex just see how
slow and chunky the multitasking becomes say when you run GCC on a large
build and then try to open up menu's, run apps etc.
> the same time under Win2000, whereas under Win95 the music would start
> skipping if I did anything else.
This maybe a problem that is unrelated to the OS's multitasking as win95
takes far less CPU resources than 2000. And playing a MP3 is not that CPU
intensive as far as a pentium is concerned. I suggest that you try
incresing the buffer length of audio data to reduce this skipping. It
could also be due to bugy win95 drivers (more likely).
>
> I can't comment about linux - I've never used it and I really don't want to
> learn another set of commands. If anyone writes a DOS emulator for Linux, I
> might give it a go :-)
There is a superb dos emulator called DOSEmu for linux.
Also there is WINE (WINE is not a emulator) which enables you to run
windoze programs on linux. Reportedly it is even possible to run that
bloated mostrosity Office97 under linux thanks to WINE.
>
> > Actually Chris this is quite wrong, AFAIK due to windoze's intrinsically
> > faulty design one badly behaved app can indeed bring the whole system
> > crashing to the ground.
>
> This has never happened to me. The only time I've seen Win2k totally crash
> is if a full-screen DOS-app causes a fault in ntvdm - in which case, the
> whole system does die.
Well A _good_ 32 bit OS should be able to handle and terminate any badly
behaving program gracefully. And gracefully doesn't mean crashing ;-).
Thats what protected mode is all about, One app shoudn't be able to mess
with another apps or even the OS's memory and resources etc.
If a dos app can cause a fault in ntvdm and bring the whole system down
that shows that windoze (because of it's bad design) can't handle a badly
behaved app very nicely.
>
> > there was this user who was complainig that RHIDE with windoze
> > gave him a back screen and then the system locked up.
>
> This is the example I was talking about above; however, if you run RHIDE
> windowed then all that happens is it kills the process when it crashes.
sloowwwwwww. Please see how slow vga games like doom are windowed. BTW It
isn't possible to run VESA based dos games windowed. Also have you noticed
that when you are running a vesa game full screen and you accidently press
that #@$*! M$ startmenu key , you cant re switch to your game as windoze
says that it can't redraw the display etc.. very nice I suppose ;-)
>
> > I think Chris you should not belive all the hype that microshaft is
> > delivering.
>
> I'm not believing any hype - I've used Win2000 myself for 2 months now, and
> am speaking from experience.
Please try running products from different companies (not just microshaft)
and see whether your system survives it). I'm sure you'l run into at least
one of the 64000 bugs that m$ has acknowledged.
>
> > > IMO, Win2000 is good value for money.
> >
> > I don't belive i'm reading this ;-)
>
> Look, it's only a figure of speech - I mean, it's a good OS.
Good OS??? Maybe a tolerable (even this is questionable) OS, but certainly
not a good OS. If you enjoy your system crashing and you have the patience
to wait a long time till it restarts then it's quite OK to have windoze
;-)
BTW when one user complained to M$ about how often windoze crashes he was
told that "We acknowledge that problem and our solution to that is, we are
working on reducing the reboot time for windoze"!!!! Typical of M$ won't
you agree...
>
> > IMHO Windoze is just good to run the occasional game you have, It is
> > _not_ good for any serious work.
>
> I admit that it's not good for servers or time-critical applications.
Not just time critical but it is not good for running _any_ software that
you need to depend upon.
> But for the average home user, who just wants to do some word
> processing and play a few games, Windows is the best out there.
Not anymore, see how many users are using Linux. Some PC companies
actually sell PC's with Linux as the only OS preinstalled.
Anyway playing a few games and running word processing can be done in DOS
also..
Enjoy,
Grendel
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