Re: Windows 95 Preview Program

[jesse@spine.com (jesse montrose)]

At 04:45 PM 4/10/95 -0400, Dunaway_Wesley/furman@furman.edu wrote:
>In any event, I was wondering if anyone out there has had previous
>experience with Windows 95 betas on TP750s.  

I've been running win95 on my 755cs since last october.. sucks less than
windows :)

Personally, I like it more than os/2, but that's not an assessment of
quality (I think os/2 is better) it's because I run windows apps.

On a cosmetic note, I really like the look and feel of win95.

>I would appreciate it if you could tell me about
>any install snafus.  

The october build was a bit rough, but I just installed the preview build
last week and it went smoothly.

>Specifically, does Win95 come with an
>appropriate inventory of drivers (video, sound, APM, PCMCIA, etc.)
>or must the functionality be patched together from the existing
>DOS/Windows drivers?  

I used the dos/windows drivers for audio/video, the pcmcia worked with win95
drivers.

>Also, I would appreciate general comments on
>the stability and speed of Windows 95, 

Speed seems the same as win3.1 to me, stability is better than 3.1, which is
to say that I still crash, but not nearly as often.  I should add that I run
a lot of stuff all at once, and did run into resource problems in 3.1 that
are gone in win95, so I'm happy with it if only for that.

>particularly with a SLIP
>connection 

The built-in SLIP/PPP is probably okay, but woefully underfeatured.  There
is no way to automate login scripts, etc.  

I use trumpet 2.0b, eudora 2.0.3, netscape 1.1b3, ewan 1.052 (telnet),
ws_ftp 94.10.18, and all are very stable.  Eudora does crash on exit about
10% of the time, but it did that for me in win3.1 as well.

>and lots of 16-bit Windows apps, as well as DOS games.

The only 16bit apps I've had a terrible time with are photoshop, and
caligari's truespace.  Both run, but crash frequently in consistant places.
Other than that, stuff pretty much just runs.

I've played doom, descent, xcom, heretic, civilization, system shock, etc,
all with no problems.. or sound, of course.. :(
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