Re: And they wonder why people switch...

From: David Wright (david_c_wright_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 09/03/04 

Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 09:47:34 +0200

James Knott wrote:

> David Wright wrote:
>
>> My old bank in the UK still used a DOS based program (ok, running in a
>> dos session under Windows 95), and some banks here use OS/2...
>>
>
> Many banks still use OS/2, because it's an excellent & reliable operating
> system, that's still supported and sold by IBM. I recall reading an
> article a while ago, about a bank that made the mistake of switching their
> ATMs to Windows.
>
> Also, I haven't seen any desktop that comes close to what OS/2 had in 1992
> and even Linux multitasking isn't as good as OS/2 was then either. For
> example, while playing a WAV or MIDI file in OS/2, on a 386, the music was
> not interupted by other activities. I can't say the same for Linux,
> running on my Athlon XP 1700+ & 512 MB. Then again, it's hard to find
> multitasking that's as bad as Windows. Even today, with XP, your system
> is pretty well useless, if you're formatting a floppy.
>

Formating a floppy I agree with... I had an Amiga and formatted 2 floppies,
whilst doing something else. The guy on the PC next to me managed to kill
the disk drives attempting to do the same thing ;-)

Saying that, I play an on-line game on my AMD 2000+ and AMD64 machines and
they play at full frame rates (50+fps) whilst playing un-interrupted MP3's
in the background.

Likewise for general work, they play uninterrupted under Windows or Linux. I
don't have any WAV's to try, I seen a WAV files in probably 5-6 years.
Haven't tried formatting a floppy at the same time, my machines either
don't have floppy drives or have them disabled in the BIOS. In fact the
only time I've used a floppy drive in the last 6 years was to load the SATA
drivers into Windows XP's setup program before it would recognise a hard
disk. Since then the drive has been disable and disconnected from the power
in the machine...

Dave

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